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@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ needn't understand the ZCA API either.
Hiding the ZCA API from application developers and code readers is a form of
enhancing "domain specificity". No application developer wants to need to
-understand the minutiae of the mechanics of how a web framework does its
+understand the small, detailed mechanics of how a web framework does its
thing. People want to deal in concepts that are closer to the domain they're
working in: for example, web developers want to know about *users*, not
*utilities*. :app:`Pyramid` uses the ZCA as an implementation detail, not as
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ Rationale
Here are the main rationales involved in the :app:`Pyramid` decision to use
the ZCA registry:
-- Pedigree. A nontrivial part of the answer to this question is "pedigree".
+- History. A nontrivial part of the answer to this question is "history".
Much of the design of :app:`Pyramid` is stolen directly from :term:`Zope`.
Zope uses the ZCA registry to do a number of tricks. :app:`Pyramid` mimics
these tricks, and, because the ZCA registry works well for that set of