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@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Lisp.
Due to a naming conflict with another programming language, Jim Blandy
suggested a new name for GEL: ``Guile''. Besides being a recursive
-acroymn, ``Guile'' craftily follows the naming of its ancestors,
+acronym, ``Guile'' craftily follows the naming of its ancestors,
``Planner'', ``Conniver'', and ``Schemer''. (The latter was truncated
to ``Scheme'' due to a 6-character file name limit on an old operating
system.) Finally, ``Guile'' suggests ``guy-ell'', or ``Guy L.
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ applications and a more fully dynamic programming environment is still
with us today.
@node A Scheme of Many Maintainers
-@subsection A Scheme of Many Mantainers
+@subsection A Scheme of Many Maintainers
Surveying the field, it seems that Scheme implementations correspond
with their maintainers on an N-to-1 relationship. That is to say, that
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ maintainership of one individual.
Guile is atypical in this regard.
-Tom Lord maintaned Guile for its first year and a half or so,
+Tom Lord maintained Guile for its first year and a half or so,
corresponding to the end of 1994 through the middle of 1996. The
releases made in this time constitute an arc from SCM as a standalone
program to Guile as a reusable, embeddable library, but passing