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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Redis is often referred as a *data structures* server. What this means is that R
 
 Data structures implemented into Redis have a few special properties:
 
-* Redis cares to store them on disk, even if they are always served and modified into the server memory. This means that Redis is fast, but that it is also non-volatile.
+* Redis cares to store them on disk, even if they are always served and modified into the server memory. This means that Redis is fast, but also non-volatile.
 * Implementation of data structures stress on memory efficiency, so data structures inside Redis will likely use less memory compared to the same data structure modeled using an high level programming language.
 * Redis offers a number of features that are natural to find in a database, like replication, tunable levels of durability, cluster, high availability.