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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Leveled is a simple Key-Value store based on the concept of Log-Structured Merge
 
 - Explicitly supports <b>HEAD requests</b> in addition to GET requests:
   - Splits the storage of value between keys/metadata and body (assuming some definition of metadata is provided);
-  - Allows for the application to define what constitutes object metadata and what constitutes the body (value-part) of the object - and assign tags to objects to manage multiple object-types with different extract rules;
+  - Allows for the application to define what constitutes object metadata and what constitutes the body (value-part) of the object - and assign tags to objects to manage multiple object-types with different extraction rules;
   - Stores keys/metadata in a merge tree and the full object in a journal of [CDB files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdb_(software))
   - allowing for HEAD requests which have lower overheads than GET requests; and
   - queries which traverse keys/metadatas to be supported with fewer side effects on the page cache than folds over keys/objects.