README: fix some typos.

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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8cfc05d..eb8fab8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 ## What is `cppawk`?
 
 `cppawk` is a tiny shell script that is used like `awk`. It invokes
-the C preprocessor (GNU `cpp`) on the Awk code and calls `gawk`.
+the C preprocessor (GNU `cpp`) on the Awk code and calls Awk on the result.
 
 `cppawk` understands the basic Awk options like `-F` and `-v`, and also
-understand common `cpp` options like `-I` and `-Dmacro=value`.
+understands common `cpp` options like `-I` and `-Dmacro=value`.
 The [`cppawk` man page](../tree/cppawk.1) describes all the invocation and
 usage details.
 
-For instance, if we define a file called `awkloop.h` which has these contents
+For instance, if we define a file called `awkloop.h` which has these contents:
 
     :::c
     #define awkloop(file)  for (; getline < file > 0 || (close(file) && 0); )
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ Then this sort of code is possible:
       main()
     }
 
-We have implemented a facsimile of an Awk input scanning loop inside a function
-with a bit of syntactic sugar. However, this these few preprocessing directives
-are just a toy example, compared to what is provided in the `cppawk` standard
+We have implemented a facsimile of an Awk input-scanning loop inside a function
+with a bit of syntactic sugar. However, these few preprocessing directives are
+just a toy example, compared to what is provided in the `cppawk` standard
 headers.
 
-`cppawk` has low dependencies. It's written in shell, and makes use of the
+`cppawk` has few dependencies. It's written in shell, and makes use of the
 `sed` and `printf` utilities.  Preprocessed programs can be captured and
 transferred for execution to systems that have Awk but do not have a
 preprocessor.
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ expressive, not to mention **user-definable** classes using a preprocessor that
 is famous for lacking power?
 
 It turns out that a significant part of the problem with C preprocessing is the
-back-end languages being targeted. The C and C++ languages rob their
-preprocessing front-end of its full power.  C macros in the context of the
+backend languages being targeted. The C and C++ languages rob their
+preprocessing frontend of its full power.  C macros in the context of the
 "home language" have to contend with syntactic roadblocks, such as identifiers
 having to be declared before use.  Because Awk is a flexibly typed language in
 which variables don't have to be declared, it creates opportunities for
@@ -103,12 +103,12 @@ preprocessor were tailor-made for Awk.
 
 ## Roadmap
 
-`cppawk` is been carefully developed, and has a regression test suite.
+`cppawk` has been carefully developed, and has a regression test suite.
 Nearly every feature and fix was developed by first writing one or more
 failing tests and getting them to pass. The script is stable and nearly
 feature-complete, since it is out of the project scope to modify Awk
 or the C preprocessor. The remaining work is likely solving portability
-issues, like using with different implementations of the C preprocessor.
+issues, like using different implementations of the C preprocessor.
 
 Among future directions for `cppawk` is the development of a small
 library of useful standard headers. The foundation has been laid for
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ There are currently
     efficient but portable code. Additionally, the `case` statement requires
     clauses to be explicit about whether they fall through or break, which
     makes it safer to use.
+
 *   [`<narg.h>`](../tree/cppawk-narg.1): provides useful primitives for easily
     writing variadic macros.
 
@@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ Several unreleased headers are in the development queue:
 *   You can organize an Awk program into a tree of files that
     the preprocessor "compiles" into a single "executable".
 
-*   You can use macros for C-style meta-programming, and for conditional
+*   You can use macros for C-style metaprogramming, and for conditional
     selection of code.
 
 *   Powerful library: list manipulation, iteration, variadic functions.
@@ -196,15 +197,15 @@ Several unreleased headers are in the development queue:
     `@include` syntax. It reacts to an `AWKPATH` environment variable which has
     no provision for referencing relative to the location of the parent file.
 
-*   `@include` requires, syntactically, a string-literal-like specification
+*   `@include` requires, syntactically, a string-literal–like specification
     of the path name to be included. An expression is not allowed. For
-    instance, if a GNU Awk program cannot do this:
+    instance, a GNU Awk program cannot do this:
 
         ::awk
         self = calculate_own_path_somehow();
         @include self "lib/util"  # error
 
-    By contrast `cppawk` program just does this:
+    By contrast, a `cppawk` program just does this:
 
         ::c
         #include "lib/util"  // no problem