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-Emoji (絵文字) is the Japanese term for the picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese electronic messages and webpages ([read more about it's history](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji)). You can use emoji in GitHub issues, markdown files, pull requests, commit messages... basically almost anywhere you see a textfield.
+Emoji (絵文字) is the Japanese term for the picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese electronic messages and webpages ([read more about its history](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji)). You can use emoji in GitHub issues, markdown files, pull requests, commit messages... basically almost anywhere you see a textfield.
 
-To include an emoji inline simply wrap it's name in colons e.g. writing `:thumbsup:` will display a :thumbsup:
+To include an emoji inline simply wrap its name in colons e.g. writing `:thumbsup:` will display a :thumbsup:
 
 You can see all the emoji that GitHub supports above :point_up:
 
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 [![Endorse Lee](http://api.coderwall.com/mdeiters/endorsecount.png)](http://coderwall.com/leereilly)
 
-or buy me a [:beer:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerware)
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+or buy me a [:beer:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerware)