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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ boinc_init();
 
 ### Parallel apps
 
-If your uses multiple threads or processes for parallelism, initialize using
+If your app uses multiple threads or processes for parallelism, initialize using
 ```c
 BOINC_OPTIONS options;