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 ## Cascading
 
-  Koa middleware cascading in a more traditional way as you may be use to with similar tools -
+  Koa middleware cascade in a more traditional way as you may be used to with similar tools -
   this was previously difficult to make user friendly with node's use of callbacks.
   However with generators we can achieve "true" middleware. Contrasting Connect's implementation which
   simply passes control through series of functions until one returns, Koa yields "downstream", then