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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ not every feature is available on every platform.
 cosmopolitan already does a tremendous job at
 polyfilling missing features across platforms,
 but pre-existing software still takes a lot of
-tweaking before becoming fully functional.
+patching before becoming fully functional.
 
 ## building