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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ A background service for monitoring and controlling ev3dev devices.
 About
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-This project needs quite a bit more though and planning. For now, it is
+This project needs quite a bit more thought and planning. For now, it is
 basically a battery monitor that shuts down the device when the battery gets
 low. In the future, it could be expanded to provide a complete hardware
 abstraction layer for ev3dev devices.