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 NOTE!!!
 
 This test suite is not intended to rank Common Lisp implementations.
-The tests have not be selected to reflect the importance or
+The tests have not been selected to reflect the importance or
 relative frequency of different CL features.  Implementations may
 even have extended the CL standard (arguably a good thing) in
 a way that causes certain tests to fail.