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@@ -160,10 +160,10 @@
 \section{Thirty years of \LaTeXe{}}
 
 Summer 1994, i.e., thirty years ago, \LaTeXe{} saw its first public
-release. Back then it was meant to be a intermediate version (hence
+release. Back then it was meant to be an intermediate version (hence
 the $\epsilon$) on the way to a major new version (the mythical
 \LaTeX3) that we expected to take a couple of more years to reach
-maturity. It took more much than that in the end\Dash nominally,
+maturity. It took much more than that in the end\Dash nominally,
 \LaTeXe{} is still with us today.
 
 However, under the hood, \LaTeXe{} changed a lot throughout these
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ \section{Thirty years of \LaTeXe{}}
 documents if the input is restricted to a (growing) subset of packages
 and document classes; see next section and previous newsletters.
 
- A big change happened on 2020-02-02 as part of the project activity,
+ A big change happened with the 2020-02-02 release as part of the project activity,
  albeit somewhat obfuscated by us as \enquote{Improved load-times for
    \pkg{expl3}}. While technically correct, what it really meant is
  that we had finally integrated the programming layer of \LaTeX3,
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ \subsection{Provide counter representations for link targets}
 
 \subsection{Extending \cs{refstepcounter}}
 
-The package \pkg{hyperref} redefines since many years
+For many years, the package \pkg{hyperref} has redefined
 \verb+\refstepcounter+ and adds code that creates link targets. The
 kernel definition has now been extended with socket interfaces that
 will allow \pkg{hyperref} to avoid the redefinitions. The new
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ \subsection{\pkg{array}: Tagging support for \cs{cline}}
 
 \subsection{\pkg{longtable}: Extend caption type}
 
-The \pkg{longtable} has been extended and now provides the command
+The \pkg{longtable} package has been extended and now provides the command
 \cs{LTcaptype} (stemming from the \pkg{ltcaption} package) to change
 the counter and caption type used by the \cs{caption} command from
 longtable.  So with \verb+\renewcommand\LTcaptype{figure}+, a