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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Please visit our wiki [Changelog](https://github.com/ginkgo-project/ginkgo/wiki/
 
 The Ginkgo team is proud to announce the new Ginkgo minor release 1.9.0.
 This release brings new features such as:
-- Supporting half precision (IEEE FP16). The type `gko::half` can now be selected in most instances as the value-type
+- Supporting half precision (IEEE FP16). The type `gko::half` can now be selected in most instances as the value type
   of a matrix, solver, preconditioner, etc. If the selected backend supports FP16 as a native type, the native type is
   used within the kernels, otherwise an overhead might occur. The new behavior is enabled by default, but it can be 
   turned off during configuration.
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Supported systems and requirements:
 ### Added features
 + Add `Executor::get_description()` for textual representation of the device [#1615](https://github.com/ginkgo-project/ginkgo/pull/1615)
 + Add row and column scaling functionality to the distributed matrix [#1640](https://github.com/ginkgo-project/ginkgo/pull/1640)
-+ Add `SolverProgress` logger printing out or storing to disk the individual scalars (and vectors) of an iterative solvers after each iteration [#1620](https://github.com/ginkgo-project/ginkgo/pull/1620)
++ Add `SolverProgress` logger printing out or storing to disk the individual scalars (and vectors) of an iterative solver after each iteration [#1620](https://github.com/ginkgo-project/ginkgo/pull/1620)
 + Add new `ortho_method` parameter for GMRES, with classical Gram-Schmidt and classical Gram-Schmidt with re-orthogonalization options in addition to previously-available modified Gram-Schmidt [#1646](https://github.com/ginkgo-project/ginkgo/pull/1646)
 + Add file config support for Schwarz [#1658](https://github.com/ginkgo-project/ginkgo/pull/1658)
 + Add overload for `Executor::run` which accepts a name and a closure for the ReferenceExecutor as the first two arguments [#1667](https://github.com/ginkgo-project/ginkgo/pull/1667)