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 ## about
 
-*feed-to-muc* is a XMPP bot which queries Atom or RSS newsfeeds and
+*feed-to-muc* is an XMPP bot which queries Atom or RSS newsfeeds and
 posts the short summary to a XMPP MUC if there is a new article.
 
 ## disclaimer