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  r76534 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-11-26 02:42:05 -0600 (Thu, 26 Nov 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r76538 | georg.brandl | 2009-11-26 14:48:25 -0600 (Thu, 26 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  #7400: typo.
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  r76628 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-12-02 08:27:11 -0600 (Wed, 02 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  Markup fixes
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  r76701 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-12-07 20:37:05 -0600 (Mon, 07 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  Typo fix; grammar fix
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  r76774 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-12 18:54:15 -0600 (Sat, 12 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  account for PyObject_IsInstance's new ability to fail
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2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 6e380dd..6b14dff 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
 .. function:: set([iterable])
    :noindex:
 
-   Return a new set, optionally with elements are taken from *iterable*.
+   Return a new set, optionally with elements taken from *iterable*.
    The set type is described in :ref:`types-set`.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index 82012fb..768ea33 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ A partial list of 3.1 features that were backported to 2.7:
 
 * A version of the :mod:`io` library, rewritten in C for performance.
 * The ordered-dictionary type described in :ref:`pep-0372`.
-* The new format specified described in :ref:`pep-0378`.
+* The new format specifier described in :ref:`pep-0378`.
 * The :class:`memoryview` object.
 * A small subset of the :mod:`importlib` module `described below <#importlib-section>`__.
 
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
   more sensible for numeric types.  (Changed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`6857`.)
 
 * Distutils is being more actively developed, thanks to Tarek Ziade
-  has taken over maintenance of the package.  A new
+  who has taken over maintenance of the package.  A new
   :file:`setup.py` subcommand, ``check``, will
   check that the arguments being passed to the :func:`setup` function
   are complete and correct (:issue:`5732`).
@@ -587,14 +587,14 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
   an invalid file descriptor.  (Implemented by Benjamin Peterson;
   :issue:`4991`.)
 
-* New function: ``itertools.compress(*data*, *selectors*)`` takes two
+* New function: ``itertools.compress(data, selectors)`` takes two
   iterators.  Elements of *data* are returned if the corresponding
   value in *selectors* is true::
 
     itertools.compress('ABCDEF', [1,0,1,0,1,1]) =>
       A, C, E, F
 
-  New function: ``itertools.combinations_with_replacement(*iter*, *r*)``
+  New function: ``itertools.combinations_with_replacement(iter, r)``
   returns all the possible *r*-length combinations of elements from the
   iterable *iter*.  Unlike :func:`combinations`, individual elements
   can be repeated in the generated combinations::
@@ -1080,5 +1080,5 @@ Acknowledgements
 
 The author would like to thank the following people for offering
 suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this
-article: no one yet.
+article: Ryan Lovett, Hugh Secker-Walker.