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@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ As usual we have a large number of bug fixes since the last release:
 Release 2.20.19 (2013-01-20)
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 A quick release as the last broke USB DisplayLink slave outputs badly. The
-performance of those displays was unusable due to a inadvertent change that
+performance of those displays was unusable due to an inadvertent change that
 caused us to flush the entire scanout over the USB for every drawing
 operation.