diff --git a/backend/README.md b/backend/README.md
index 5bd3dae..9faf76e 100644
--- a/backend/README.md
+++ b/backend/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Backend Usage
 
-In order for this to work, you need to have [sqlite3](https://sqlite.org)
-installed on your system. Once you do, make a databse called `users.db`
+In order to run the backend, you need to have [sqlite3](https://sqlite.org)
+installed on your system. Once you do, make a database file named `users.db`
 and initialize it with the `sql/init.sql` script:
 
 ```sh
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ $ cat sql/init.sql | sqlite3 users.db
 ```
 
 You can optionally provide the `PORT` environment variable to override the
-default port of 7741
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+default port of `7741`