Merge pull request #20 from escherba/dev

update readme

Author: escherba

README.rst

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ After that, you should be able to import the module and do things with it (see E
 Example Usage
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-The package contains 64- and 128-bit implementations of CityHash algorithm that
-are named as such:
+The package contains 64- and 128-bit implementations of the CityHash algorithm,
+named as follows:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ are named as such:
 
 Development
 -----------
-If you want to contribute to this package by developing, the included Makefile
-provides some useful commands to help you with that task:
+For those who want to contribute, here is a quick start using some makefile
+commands:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
@@ -59,13 +59,13 @@ See Also
 --------
 For other fast non-cryptographic hashing implementations available as Python
 extensions, see `MetroHash <https://github.com/escherba/python-metrohash>`__
-and `xxh <https://github.com/lebedov/xxh>`__.
+and `xxHash <https://github.com/lebedov/xxh>`__.
 
 Authors
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-The Python bindings were originally written by Alexander [Amper] Marshalov and
-were subsequently edited for more speed/versatility and packaged for PyPI by
-Eugene Scherba. The original CityHash algorithm is by Google.
+The Python bindings were originally written by Alexander [Amper] Marshalov,
+then repackaged for PyPI (with minor improvements) by Eugene Scherba. The
+original CityHash algorithm is by Google.
 
 License
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