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                                   Changelog
 
 Daniel Stenberg (19 Jun 2008)
-- Christopher Palow fixed a curl_multi_socket() issue which previous caused
+- Christopher Palow fixed a curl_multi_socket() issue which previously caused
   libcurl to not tell the app properly when a socket was closed (when the name
-  resolve done by c-ares is done) and then immediately re-created and put to
-  use again (for the actual connection). Since the closure will make the
+  resolve done by c-ares is completed) and then immediately re-created and put
+  to use again (for the actual connection). Since the closure will make the
   "watch status" get lost in several event-based systems libcurl will need to
   tell the app about this close/re-create case.