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 ## Executive Summary
 
-These are quick and dirty python scripts I threw together to
-facilitate manipulating CSV files with AWK.  It is heavily inspired by
-[csvquote](https://github.com/adamgordonbell/csvquote).  I just didn't
-want to have to install go on a machine to use it.  I wrote this one
-in Python because that's very likely to already be present on most any
-modern UNIX-ey system.
+These are quick and dirty Python scripts I threw together to
+facilitate manipulating CSV files with AWK.  They are heavily inspired
+by [csvquote](https://github.com/adamgordonbell/csvquote).  I just
+didn't want to have to install go on a machine to use it.  I wrote
+this one in Python because that's very likely to already be present on
+most any modern UNIX-ey system.
 
 It provides two scripts: `csv-reader.py` and `csv-writer.py` which
-read and write CSV files respectively.  Both read from standard input
-and write to standard output.  The format they convert the CSV to/from
-works as follows:
+read and write CSV files respectively (converting to and from a
+simpler format).  Both read from standard input and write to standard
+output.  The format they convert the CSV to/from works as follows:
 
 - Each row is represented as a single line of text.
 - Cells are separated by tab characters.
@@ -41,6 +41,6 @@ works as follows:
 
 ## Disclaimer
 
-I haven't seriously looked at Python in over a decade and I hacked it
-together in like 30 minutes.  Don't go looking for the most well
+I haven't seriously looked at Python in over a decade and I hacked
+this together in like 30 minutes.  Don't go looking for the most well
 put-together code you've ever seen.  It gets the job done though.