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@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Building with partial threading support <a name="buildthreaded"></a>
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 Although json-c does not support fully multi-threaded access to
-object trees, it has some code to help make threaded programs
+object trees, it has some code to help make use in threaded programs
 a bit safer.  Currently, this is limited to using atomic operations for
 json_object_get() and json_object_put().