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@@ -9,11 +9,10 @@
       \blank[medium]
      
       \startcitedquotation[deursen00]
-      A domain-specific language (\small{DSL}) is a program-
-      ming language or executable specification language
-      that offers, through appropriate notations and ab-
-      stractions, expressive power focused on, and usu-
-      ally restricted to, a particular problem domain.
+      A domain-specific language (\small{DSL}) is a programming language
+      or executable specification language that offers, through
+      appropriate notations and abstractions, expressive power focused
+      on, and usually restricted to, a particular problem domain.
       \stopcitedquotation
 
       An embedded \small{DSL} is a \small{DSL} that is embedded in
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@
       polymorphism, higher-order values or type classes can be used in
       the embedded language. \cite[hudak96]
 
-      For an \small{EDSL}, the definitions of compiletime and runtime
+      For an \small{EDSL}, the definitions of compile-time and run-time
       are typically fuzzy (and thus hard to define here), since the
       \small{EDSL} \quote{compiler} is usually compiled by the same
       Haskell compiler as the \small{EDSL} program itself.
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@
       define limitations on values, making it easier to find violations
       and thus bugs.
       \item Easy to process. Functional languages have nice properties like
-      purity \refdef{purity} and single binding behaviour, which make it easy
+      purity \refdef{purity} and single binding behavior, which make it easy
       to apply program transformations and optimizations and could potentially
       simplify program verification.
     \stopitemize
@@ -102,7 +101,7 @@
       generate parts of this \small{AST}.
 
       Template Haskell is a very powerful, but also complex mechanism.
-      It was inteded to simplify the generation of some repetive pieces
+      It was intended to simplify the generation of some repetitive pieces
       of code, but its introspection features have inspired all sorts of
       applications, such as hardware description compilers.
       \stopframedtext
@@ -113,7 +112,7 @@
       specific languages. For example, an \hs{if} or \hs{case}
       expression is typically executed once when the Haskell description
       is processed and only the result is reflected in the generated
-      datastructure (and thus in the final program). In Lava, for
+      data-structure (and thus in the final program). In Lava, for
       example, conditional assignment can only be described by using
       explicit multiplexer components, not using any of Haskell's
       compact mechanisms (such as \hs{case} expressions or pattern