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 <p align="center">
   <em>
-    A demo is worth more than thousand words — check it out at
+    A demo is worth a thousand words — check it out at
     <a href="https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/">
       squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material
     </a>!