diff --git a/sysutils/mesure/DESCR b/sysutils/mesure/DESCR
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--- a/sysutils/mesure/DESCR
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-This tool is to be used to mesure different kinds of streams, the idea is to
-create a good source to get concepts and resources for other tools that mesure
-system usage.
+This tool is to be used to measure different kinds of streams, the
+idea is to create a good source to get concepts and resources for
+other tools that measure system usage.
 
-You can mesure how KB/s grows a file received by FTP or NetCat for example.
-How fast processes eat memory, stream usage (pipe like), etc.
+You can measure by how many KB/s a file received by FTP or NetCat
+grows, for example.  How fast processes eat memory, stream usage
+(pipe like), etc.