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@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ connect these worlds and puts a step towards making hardware programming
 on the whole easier, more maintainable and generally more pleasant.
 
 This assignment has been performed in close cooperation with Christiaan
-Baaij, whose Master's thesis \cite[baaij09] has been completed at the
+Baaij, whose Master's thesis \cite[baaij09]\ has been completed at the
 same time as this thesis. Where this thesis focuses on the
 interpretation of the Haskell language and the compilation process,
-\cite[baaij09] has a more thorough study of the field, explores more
+\cite[baaij09]\ has a more thorough study of the field, explores more
 advanced types and provides a case study.
 
 % Use \subject to hide this section from the toc
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ advanced types and provides a case study.
   As a motivating example, consider the simple functional program shown in
   \in{example}[ex:AndWord]\footnote[notfinalsyntax]{This example is not in the final
   Cλash syntax}. This is a very natural way to describe a lot of parallel not
-  ports, that perform a bitwise not on a bitvector. The example also shows an
+  ports, that perform a bit-wise not on a bit-vector. The example also shows an
   image of the architecture described.
 
   \startbuffer[AndWord]
@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ advanced types and provides a case study.
     \stopcombination
 
   Slightly more complicated is the incremental summation of
-  values show in \in{example}[ex:RecursiveSum]\note[notfinalsyntax].
+  values shown in \in{example}[ex:RecursiveSum]\note[notfinalsyntax].
 
   In this example we see a recursive function \hs{sum'} that recurses over a
   list and takes an accumulator argument that stores the sum so far. On each
-  step of the recusion, another number from the input vector is added to the
+  step of the recursion, another number from the input vector is added to the
   accumulator and each intermediate step returns its result.
 
   This is a nice description of a series of sequential adders that produce
@@ -204,13 +204,13 @@ advanced types and provides a case study.
   \stopquotation
   \setupquotation[style=normal,spacebefore=]
 
-  We can further split this into subquestions from a hardware perspective:
+  We can further split this into sub-questions from a hardware perspective:
   \startitemize
     \item How can we describe a stateful design?
     \item How can we describe (hierarchical) structure in a design?
   \stopitemize
   
-  And subquestions from a functional perspective:
+  And sub-questions from a functional perspective:
   \startitemize
     \item How to interpret recursion in descriptions?
     \item How to interpret polymorphism?
@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ advanced types and provides a case study.
     Systems). The lambda in the name is of course a reference to the
     lambda abstraction, which is an essential element of most functional
     languages (and is also prominent in the Haskell logo).
+
+    Cλash is pronounced like \quote{Clash}.
     \stopframedtext
   }
 
@@ -262,7 +264,7 @@ hardware descriptions, Haskell. The possibilities and limits of this prototype
 are further explored.
 
 During the creation of the prototype, it became apparent that some structured
-way of doing program transformations was required. Doing ad-hoc interpretation
+way of doing program transformations was required. Doing ad hoc interpretation
 of the hardware description proved non-scalable. These transformations and
 their application are the subject of the fourth chapter.