diff --git a/README b/README
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 check_temp
 
 A small Nagios plugin that checks the CPU (or M/B) temperature with lm-sensors.
-It's written in Bash and uses some sed & awk.
-Default is to check the CPU temperature but this can be changed to for example 
+It's written in Bash and uses *nix "sensors" and some sed & awk.
+Default is to check the CPU temperature but this can be changed to, for example, 
 the motherboard temperature with a "--sensor" argument. 
 The plugin complies with the guidelines, for example uses -w -c -v arguments 
 etc. It also does some basic sanity checks and has a exit 3 catchall.
 
-The plugin were submitted to Nagios Exchange in 2011.
+The plugin was submitted to Nagios Exchange in 2011.
 
 Known forks of check_temp:
 There is a very good Perl fork of check_temp written by Chad Columbus. It's
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
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 check_temp THANKS file
 
 check_temp was originally written by Jack-Benny Persson.
-Some kind people has been contributing by reporting problems, suggesting
+Some kind people have been contributing by reporting problems, suggesting
 improvements or submitting code.
 Here is a list of these kind people.