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* grammar:
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    * repeated words
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    * possesion
    * run on sentences
    * commas for prepositional phrases
    * is/are conjugations
    * was/were
    * its/it's
    * capitalizing proper nouns (Monero, Bitcoin, etc)
    * formatting (removed linefeeds in middle of sentences)
    * can not/cannot
    * removed commas improperly before conjunctions
* spelling:
    * programmatically
    * hashrate
    * transferring
    * scalability
    * separate
    * transactions
    * additionally
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    * profitability
    * recommended
    * explicitly
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* spelling (br/us)
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404/index.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ title: "Error 404, Page Not Found"
 
 	<div class="top-left">
 			<div class="not-found-text">
-				<h1 class="not-found-text">Oh no, we couldn't find anything for that link!</h1>
+				<h1 class="not-found-text">Oh no! We couldn't find anything for that link!</h1>
 			</div>
 	</div>
 

_data/tags.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   name: i2p
 
 - slug: i8n
-  name: Internationalisation
+  name: Internationalization
 
 - slug: rpc
   name: RPC API

get-started/accepting/index.md

@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ If you need to check for payments programmatically, then details follow the next
 * Communicate the payment ID and Monero address to the individual who is making payment  
 * Check for the payment using the "payments" command in monero-wallet-cli
 
-### Checking for a Payment Programatically
+### Checking for a Payment Programmatically
 
-In order to check for a payment programatically you can use the get_payments or get_bulk_payments JSON RPC API calls.
+In order to check for a payment programmatically you can use the get_payments or get_bulk_payments JSON RPC API calls.
 
 *get_payments*: this requires a payment_id parameter with a single payment ID.
 

get-started/mining/index.md

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ title: Mining Monero
                         </div>
                     </div>
                     <div class="row center-xs">
-                       <p>One of the common ways to mine Monero is to join a pool, although <a href="">mining solo is possible and encouraged.</a> A Monero community member has put together a <a href="http://moneropools.com/">list of trusted Monero pools</a> for you to consider. Remember, join a smaller pool to spread the hashes around!</p>
+                       <p>One of the common ways to mine Monero is to join a pool, although <a href="">mining solo is possible and encouraged.</a> A Monero community member has put together a <a href="http://moneropools.com/">list of trusted Monero pools</a> for you to consider. Remember; join a smaller pool to spread the hashes around!</p>
                     </div>
                 </div>
             </div>
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ title: Mining Monero
                         </div>
                     </div>
                     <div class="row center-xs">
-                       <p>Some people choose to invest in specalized mining hardware in order to increase their mining hashrate. A Monero community member has decided to put together a <a href="http://monerobenchmarks.info/">site for the benchmarks of different GPUs</a>. Results may vary. Feel free to contribute</p>
+                       <p>Some people choose to invest in specialized mining hardware in order to increase their mining hashrate. A Monero community member has decided to put together a <a href="http://monerobenchmarks.info/">site for the benchmarks of different GPUs</a>. Results may vary. Feel free to contribute</p>
                     </div>
                 </div>
             </div>
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ title: Mining Monero
                         </div>
                     </div>
                     <div class="row center-xs">
-                       <p>Depending on your hardware, there are various mining programs available for use. You might consider trying different ones and seeing how it affects you hasrate. Please note, that some miners also have developer fees.</p>
+                       <p>Depending on your hardware, there are various mining programs available for use. You might consider trying different ones and seeing how it affects you hashrate. Please note, that some miners also have developer fees.</p>
                     </div>
                     <div class="row miners">
                         <div class="col-md-4 col-xs-12 center-xs">

get-started/using/index.md

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ title: Using Monero
                         </div>
                     </div>
                     <div class="row start-xs">
-                        <p>Before reading further, it is important to know that there is a large, supportive community that can assist if your run into trouble. If you have questions about anything, no matter how large or small, don't hesitate to ask. We chill in a lot of places, so see our <a href="/community/hangouts/">Hangouts page</a> to track us down. Remember, there are no stupid questions, and we are all learning together.</p>
+                        <p>Before reading further, it is important to know that there is a large, supportive community that can assist if you run into trouble. If you have questions about anything, no matter how large or small, don't hesitate to ask. We chill in a lot of places, so see our <a href="/community/hangouts/">Hangouts page</a> to track us down. Remember, there are no stupid questions, and we are all learning together.</p>
                     </div>
                 </div>
             </div>
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ title: Using Monero
                 <div class="info-block">
                     <div class="row center-xs">
                         <div class="col">
-                            <h2>5. Transfering Monero</h2>
+                            <h2>5. Transferring Monero</h2>
                         </div>
                     </div>
                     <div class="row start-xs">

legal/copyright.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ title: Legal
 
 ### The Monero Project
 
-The majority of the content on this website, including the Monero logo and our Monero Missive podcast, is released under the  CC BY-SA 4.0 license (the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)). This means that you can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. However, when doing so you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests The Monero Project endorses you or your use.
+The majority of the content on this website, including the Monero logo and our Monero Missive podcast, is released under the  CC BY-SA 4.0 license (the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)). This means that you can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. However when doing so, you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests The Monero Project endorses you or your use.
 
 ### Icons and Other Attributed Items
 

legal/index.md

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ The Monero Project takes many precautions to ensure the files available for down
 
 ### Sponsors and Advertisers are Not Endorsed
 
-Though we seek to partner with quality companies, we are not responsible for the claims or representations made by sponsors and advertisers. The Monero Project does not review, endorse or recommend the products or services of any company mentioned on our site. We will not be liable in any way for damages of any kind resulting out of the misuse of any personal information or data submitted by you to an sponsor or advertiser.
+Though we seek to partner with quality companies, we are not responsible for the claims or representations made by sponsors and advertisers. The Monero Project does not review, endorse or recommend the products or services of any company mentioned on our site. We will not be liable in any way for damages of any kind resulting out of the misuse of any personal information or data submitted by you to a sponsor or advertiser.
 
 ### Offsite Links
 
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ The Monero Project uses Google Analytics to collect usage and visitor data for t
 
 The Google Analytics data is used to provide statistics on the website and help us to improve the content and the information flow.
 
-Server logs are used to analyse errors and diagnose requests to dead links. A portion of the server logs are used to gather statistics on Monero downloads in order to help us better understand our user's needs.
+Server logs are used to analyze errors and diagnose requests to dead links. A portion of the server logs are used to gather statistics on Monero downloads in order to help us better understand our user's needs.
 </div>
 </div>
             </div>

resources/moneropedia/account.md

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ The private keys for both of these must be protected by you in order to retain y
 
 ### Backing Up Your Account
 
-When you have manage your own Monero Account with the private @spend-key, you are solely responsible for the security of your funds. Thankfully, Monero makes it very easy to backup your account. When creating a Monero account for the first time you will be given a unique @mnemonic-seed for your account that consists of 13 or 25 words in the language of your choosing. **This seed is the only thing you need to backup for your account**, and so it is imperative that it is written down and stored securely.  Never store this seed in a form or location that would allow someone else to see it!
+When you manage your own Monero Account with the private @spend-key, you are solely responsible for the security of your funds. Thankfully, Monero makes it very easy to backup your account. When creating a Monero account for the first time you will be given a unique @mnemonic-seed for your account that consists of 13 or 25 words in the language of your choosing. **This seed is the only thing you need to backup for your account**, and so it is imperative that it is written down and stored securely.  Never store this seed in a form or location that would allow someone else to see it!
 
 {:.cli-code}
 List of available languages for your wallet's seed:

resources/moneropedia/airgap.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: moneropedia
 entry: "Airgap"
 terms: ["airgap"]
-summary: "An airgap is a security measure to physically seperate a computer or device from all other networks, such as the Internet."
+summary: "An airgap is a security measure to physically separate a computer or device from all other networks, such as the Internet."
 ---
 
 ### The Basics

resources/moneropedia/blockchain.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ summary: "a distributed ledger of all transactions both past and present, withou
 ---
 
 ### The Basics
-A @blockchain is a distributed database that continuously grows with a record of all of the transactions that have occurred with a given cryptocurrency.  This database is often referred to as a ledger because the data contains a large list of transctions that have taken place.  In Monero, these transactions are packaged together into 'blocks' every 2 minutes (on average) and all miners and nodes on the network have copies of these blocks.  
+A @blockchain is a distributed database that continuously grows with a record of all of the transactions that have occurred with a given cryptocurrency.  This database is often referred to as a ledger because the data contains a large list of transactions that have taken place.  In Monero, these transactions are packaged together into 'blocks' every 2 minutes (on average) and all miners and nodes on the network have copies of these blocks.  
 
 ### Monero's @Blockchain
-Unlike Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, transactions in the Monero @blockchain do not reveal where funds came from or went to, providing anonymity and making the currency completely @fungible. Additionaly, the amounts of all transactions are hidden by @RingCT, a feature of Monero. For auditing or other transparency purposes a user can share a @view-key to prove they control certain amounts of @Moneroj.
+Unlike Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, transactions in the Monero @blockchain do not reveal where funds came from or went to, providing anonymity and making the currency completely @fungible. Additionally, the amounts of all transactions are hidden by @RingCT, a feature of Monero. For auditing or other transparency purposes a user can share a @view-key to prove they control certain amounts of @Moneroj.

resources/moneropedia/fungibility.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ summary: "property of a currency whereby two units can be substituted in place o
 
 ### The Basics
 
-Fungibility means that two units of a currency can be mutually substituted and the substituted currency is equal to another unit of the same size.  For example, two $10 bills can be exchanged and they are functionally identical to any other $10 bills in circulation (although $10 bills have unique ID numbers and are therefore not completely fungible).  Gold is probably a closer example of true fungibility, where any 1 oz. of gold of the same grade is worth the same as another 1 oz of gold.  Monero is fungible due to the nature of the currency which provides no way to link transactions together nor trace the history of any perticular XMR.  1 XMR is functionally identical to any other 1 XMR.
+Fungibility means that two units of a currency can be mutually substituted and the substituted currency is equal to another unit of the same size.  For example, two $10 bills can be exchanged and they are functionally identical to any other $10 bills in circulation (although $10 bills have unique ID numbers and are therefore not completely fungible).  Gold is probably a closer example of true fungibility, where any 1 oz. of gold of the same grade is worth the same as another 1 oz of gold.  Monero is fungible due to the nature of the currency which provides no way to link transactions together nor trace the history of any particular XMR.  1 XMR is functionally identical to any other 1 XMR.
 
 Fungibility is an advantage Monero has over Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency, due to the privacy inherent in the Monero @blockchain and the permanently traceable nature of the Bitcoin blockchain.  With Bitcoin, any BTC can be tracked by anyone back to it's creation @coinbase-transaction.  Therefore, if a coin has been used for an illegal purpose in the past, this history will be contained in the @blockchain in perpetuity.  This lack of fungibility means that certain businesses will be obligated to avoid accepting BTC that have been previously used for purposes which are illegal, or simply run afoul of their Terms of Service.  Currently some large Bitcoin companies are blocking, suspending, or closing accounts that have received Bitcoin used in online gambling or other purposes deemed unsavory by said companies.  
 

resources/moneropedia/garlic-routing.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ As recent as October of 2016, [#tor-dev](https://oftc.net/WebChat/) has offered
 >during the free haven brainstorming, there was a moment where we described a routing mechanism, and somebody said "garlic routing!", and everybody laughed.
 so we for sure thought we had invented the name, at the time.
 
-*Note: permission to use the aforementioned quotes were granted by Nick Mathewson and Roger Dingledine*
+*Note: permission to use the aforementioned quotes was granted by Nick Mathewson and Roger Dingledine*
 
 ### In-depth Information
 

resources/moneropedia/miners.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Monero is powered strictly by Proof of Work. It employs a mining algorithm that
 
 The smart mining feature allows transparent CPU mining on the user's computer, far from the de facto centralization of mining farms and pool mining, pursuing Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision of a true P2P currency. 
 
-As of June 2017, botnets made of hacked computers account for a not-insignificant portion of the miners on the Monero network.  This is due to the profitibility of mining on CPUs via the @CryptoNight algorithm.
+As of June 2017, botnets made of hacked computers account for a not-insignificant portion of the miners on the Monero network.  This is due to the profitability of mining on CPUs via the @CryptoNight algorithm.
 
 
 

resources/moneropedia/openalias.md

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ The Monero Core Team released a standard called OpenAlias which permits much mor
 
 OpenAlias seeks to provide a way to simplify aliasing amidst a rapidly shifting technology climate. Users are trying to cross the bridge to private and cryptographically secure infrastructure and systems, but many of them have just barely started remembering the email addresses of their friends and family.
 
-As part of the ongoing development of the Monero cryptocurrency project, we asked ourselves: how can we simplify payments for users unfamiliar with cryptocurrency? Monero stealth addresses are at least 95 characters long - memorising them is not an option, and asking someone to send a payment to <95-character-string> is only going to lead to confusion.
+As part of the ongoing development of the Monero cryptocurrency project, we asked ourselves: how can we simplify payments for users unfamiliar with cryptocurrency? Monero stealth addresses are at least 95 characters long - memorizing them is not an option, and asking someone to send a payment to <95-character-string> is only going to lead to confusion.
 
-At its most basic, OpenAlias is a TXT DNS record on a FQDN (fully qualified domain name). By combining this with DNS-related technologies we have created an aliasing standard that is extensible for developers, intuitive and familiar for users, and can interoperate with both centralised and decentralised domain systems.
+At its most basic, OpenAlias is a TXT DNS record on a FQDN (fully qualified domain name). By combining this with DNS-related technologies we have created an aliasing standard that is extensible for developers, intuitive and familiar for users, and can interoperate with both centralized and decentralized domain systems.
 
 {{ page.summary | capitalize }}.
 

resources/moneropedia/paymentid.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ The Payment ID is usually used to identify transactions to merchants and exchang
 Since the 0.9 Hydrogen Helix version, the Payment IDs can be encrypted and embedded in a payment address. The payment ID's of this type should be 64-bits and are encrypted with a random one-time key known only to the sender and receiver.
 
 ### Creating a Payment ID
-It is recommented to use the official wallet's `integrated_address` command to automatically generate Integrated Addresses that contain Compact Payment ID's. If you want to use the command line, you can generate Payment ID's as follows:
+It is recommended to use the official wallet's `integrated_address` command to automatically generate Integrated Addresses that contain Compact Payment ID's. If you want to use the command line, you can generate Payment ID's as follows:
 
 Creating a compact Payment ID for an Integrated Address:
 ```# openssl rand -hex 8```

resources/moneropedia/reseed.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ summary: "The method of which Kovri uses to bootstrap into the I2P network"
 
 ### The Basics
 
-When you start @Kovri for the first time (or if its been offline for a long time), @Kovri will need a list of peers to connect to so it can [bootstrap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap) into the @I2P network. @Kovri gets these peers from a special file stored on a reseed server. On this file are all the various pieces of information @Kovri needs in order to connect with @I2P peers.
+When you start @Kovri for the first time (or if it's been offline for a long time), @Kovri will need a list of peers to connect to so it can [bootstrap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap) into the @I2P network. @Kovri gets these peers from a special file stored on a reseed server. On this file are all the various pieces of information @Kovri needs in order to connect with @I2P peers.
 
 ### In-depth information