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 # Kiwix Android
 
-Kiwix is an offline reader for Web content. One of its main purpose
+Kiwix is an offline reader for Web content. One of its main purposes
 is to make Wikipedia available offline. This is done by reading the
 content of a file in the ZIM format, a highly compressed open format
-with additional meta-data. This is the version for Android.
+with additional metadata. This is the version for Android.
 
 Kiwix Android is written in [Kotlin](https://kotlinlang.org/) (with a few old
 pieces in Java).