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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ PLWN API is a library for accessing the plWordNet lexicon in a Python program.
 Setup
 =====
 
-To use the api one has to download a default data dump. To setup the api you have to `download` command from plwn library.
+To use the api one has to download a default data dump. To setup the api you have to execute `download` command from plwn library.
 
 ```python
 import plwn
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Usage
 =====
 
 Access is provided using a PLWordNet object, with data loaded from the database
-dump. To get thethe database dump use the `download` method (see ,,Setup'' section).
+dump. To get the database dump use the `download` method (see ,,Setup'' section).
 
 ```python
 import plwn