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 ## Authors
 
-`gh-ost` was designed, authored, reviewed and tested by the database infrastructure team at GitHub:
+`gh-ost` is designed, authored, reviewed and tested by the database infrastructure team at GitHub:
 - [@jonahberquist](https://github.com/jonahberquist)
 - [@ggunson](https://github.com/ggunson)
 - [@tomkrouper](https://github.com/tomkrouper)