diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b2bcc809..36d0e957 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This library is the **first step** of a journey that every markup file in a repo
 1. `github-markup` selects an _underlying library_ to convert the raw markup to HTML. See the list of [supported markup formats](#markups) below.
 1. The HTML is sanitized, aggressively removing things that could harm you and your kin—such as `script` tags, inline-styles, and `class` or `id` attributes.
 1. Syntax highlighting is performed on code blocks. See [github/linguist](https://github.com/github/linguist#syntax-highlighting) for more information about syntax highlighting.
-1. The HTML is passed through other filters that add special sauce, such as emoji, task lists, named anchors, CDN caching for images, and autolinking.
+1. The HTML is passed through other filters that add special sauce, such as emoji, task lists, named anchors, CDN caching for images, and auto-linking.
 1. The resulting HTML is rendered on GitHub.com.
 
 Please note that **only the first step** is covered by this gem — the rest happens on GitHub.com.  In particular, `markup` itself does no sanitization of the resulting HTML, as it expects that to be covered by whatever pipeline is consuming the HTML.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ you wish to run the library. You can also run `script/bootstrap` to fetch them a
 * [.rst](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) -- `pip install docutils`
 * [.asciidoc, .adoc, .asc](http://asciidoc.org/) -- `gem install asciidoctor` (http://asciidoctor.org)
 * [.pod](http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/pod/perlpod.pod) -- `Pod::Simple::XHTML`
-  comes with Perl >= 5.10. Lower versions should install Pod::Simple from CPAN.
+  comes with Perl >= 5.10. Lower versions should install Pod: Simple from CPAN.
 
 Installation
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