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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ musikcube compiles and runs easily on windows, macos and linux. it also runs wel
 
  [keyboard shortcuts are described in the user guide.](https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/wiki/user-guide)
 
-**a quick note**: the terminal-based frontend was recently renamed from `musikbox` to `musikcube` to avoid naming confusion. `musikbox` was originally going to be a throw-away test harness for the core library, but instead evolved into a stable, complete player. 
+**a quick note**: the terminal-based frontend was recently renamed from `musikbox` to `musikcube` to avoid naming confusion. `musikbox` was originally a throw-away test harness for the core library, but evolved into a stable, usable player.
 
 it looks something like this on windows: