some further corrections in the documentation

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ Version 1.1.  This license is available with a FAQ at:
 History
 -------
 This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
-Standard*.[^1] In comparison to *Old Standard*, it includes new
-letters and some corrections:
+Standard*.[^1] In comparison to the previous releases of *Old
+Standard*, it includes new letters and some corrections:
 
 1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
    styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals,
-   which are missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
+   which were missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
    century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
    *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers,
    current headings and in some books proper names.

diff --git a/about.html b/about.html
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--- a/about.html
+++ b/about.html
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 </ul>
 <p>This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL" class="uri">http://scripts.sil.org/OFL</a></p>
 <h2 id="history">History</h2>
-<p>This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful <em>Old Standard</em>.<a href="#fn1" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a> In comparison to <em>Old Standard</em>, it includes new letters and some corrections:</p>
+<p>This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful <em>Old Standard</em>.<a href="#fn1" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a> In comparison to the previous releases of <em>Old Standard</em>, it includes new letters and some corrections:</p>
 <ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
-<li>Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals, which are missing from <em>Old Standard</em>, were already in use a century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to <em>Old Standard</em>. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers, current headings and in some books proper names.</li>
+<li>Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals, which were missing from <em>Old Standard</em>, were already in use a century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to <em>Old Standard</em>. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers, current headings and in some books proper names.</li>
 <li>The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (<code>U+01E6</code>, uppercase) and ǧ (<code>U+01E7</code>, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character missing from <em>Old Standard</em> that is needed in some of the accepted standards of romanization of classical Arabic.<a href="#fn2" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref2"><sup>2</sup></a></li>
 <li>Additionally, this release corrects the <code>+ss06</code> feature provided by <em>Old Standard</em>. This feature is supposed to distinguish between regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta (<code>U+03D0</code>) in medial position. This feature worked in most cases with the previous release of <em>Old Standard</em>. However, it failed if the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the <em>Greek extended</em> Unicode block.</li>
 </ol>

diff --git a/oldstandard.tex b/oldstandard.tex
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--- a/oldstandard.tex
+++ b/oldstandard.tex
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{OldStandard-Regular.otf}
   {\textsc{Old Standard}\\
     \Large
     A Unicode Font for Classical and Medieval Studies\\
-    \large Based on Alexey Kryukov's \emph{Old Standard}\\
+    \large Based on Alexey Kryukov's original \emph{Old Standard}\\
     \large v\pkgver -- \pkgdate}}
 
 \author{Robert Alessi \\
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{OldStandard-Regular.otf}
 
 \begin{abstract}
   This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful \emph{Old
-    Standard}. In comparison to \emph{Old Standard}, it includes new
-  letters and some corrections.
+    Standard}. In comparison to the previous releases of \emph{Old
+    Standard}, it includes new letters and some corrections.
 \end{abstract}
 
 \section{License}
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ under the terms of the OFL license (see above,
 update dates back to Aug.\ 12, 2013. To be more precise, all of the
 five \enquote*{commits} the writer was able to see were pushed on the
 very same day. Since then, two \enquote*{pull requests} dating back to
-2017 have been remained unanswered. It is therefore to be feared that
-the project has been abandoned.  To date, this release of \emph{Old
+2017 remained unanswered. It is therefore to be feared that the
+project has been abandoned.  To date, this release of \emph{Old
   Standard} has been published by Nikola Lečić and Bob Tennent and is
 available on CTAN and {\TeX}Live with a style file.\footnote{See
   \url{https://ctan.org/pkg/oldstandard}}