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 News for ikiwiki 2.20:
 
-   The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
+   The template plugin has begun to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
    This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
    raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.