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@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ Concurrency Kit (libck, \-lck)
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The 
 .Fn ck_pr_load 3
-family of functions will atomically load the value
+family of functions atomically loads the value
 pointed to by
 .Fa target
-and return it. This family of functions will always
-serve as implicit compiler barriers and will under-go
-re-ordering by the compiler.
+and returns it. This family of functions always
+serves as an implicit compiler barrier and is not
+susceptible to re-ordering by the compiler.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 This family of functions returns the value contained
 in the location pointed to by the first argument.