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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <simpara>
    <acronym>PHP</acronym>, which stands for &quot;<literal>PHP: Hypertext
    Preprocessor</literal>&quot; is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose
-   scripting language that is especially suited for Web
+   scripting language that is especially suited for web
    development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws
    upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal of
    the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically