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 # cldr-core
 
-This repository provides the a portion of the JSON distribution of CLDR locale data
+This repository provides a portion of the JSON distribution of CLDR locale data
 for internationalization.
 
 Refer to the README at https://github.com/unicode-cldr/cldr-json for complete details.