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diff --git a/pod/perliol.pod b/pod/perliol.pod
index 9f08df4..136faa6 100644
--- a/pod/perliol.pod
+++ b/pod/perliol.pod
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ maintain (source) compatibility.
 
 The aim of the implementation is to provide the PerlIO API in a flexible
 and platform neutral manner. It is also a trial of an "Object Oriented
-C, with vtables" approach which may be applied to perl6.
+C, with vtables" approach which may be applied to Perl 6.
 
 =head2 Basic Structure
 
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ representing open (allocated) handles. For example the first three slots
 in the table correspond to C<stdin>,C<stdout> and C<stderr>. The table
 in turn points to the current "top" layer for the handle - in this case
 an instance of the generic buffering layer "perlio". That layer in turn
-points to the next layer down - in this case the lowlevel "unix" layer.
+points to the next layer down - in this case the low-level "unix" layer.
 
 The above is roughly equivalent to a "stdio" buffered stream, but with
 much more flexibility:
@@ -559,10 +559,9 @@ pushed. e.g. ":encoding(ascii)" would return an SvPV with value
 "ascii". (I<param> and I<flags> arguments can be ignored in most
 cases)
 
-If the layer's C<Pushed> function uses an extra argument, this
-function is a must if the layer is ever going to be duped, since
-C<Dup> will use C<Getarg> to retrieve the argument originally passed
-to C<Pushed>.
+C<Dup> uses C<Getarg> to retrieve the argument originally passed to
+C<Pushed>, so you must implement this function if your layer has an
+extra argument to C<Pushed> and will ever be C<Dup>ed.
 
 =item Fileno