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 # Contributing to Docker
 
 Want to hack on Docker? Awesome! Here are instructions to get you
-started. They are probably not perfect, please let us know if anything
+started. They are probably not perfect; please let us know if anything
 feels wrong or incomplete.
 
 ## Topics