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@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Highlight the first two character of 4 letter words.
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-Unlike the previews entries, the last entry is a fractional value between 0 and 1 which specified which fraction of words that are not specified by previous rules must be highlighted.
+Unlike the previous entries, the last entry is a fractional value between 0 and 1 which specified which fraction of words that are not specified by previous rules must be highlighted.
 For example, here we highlight the first 40% characters of words with 5 or more characters.
 
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