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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The API exposes the following endpoints:
   - GET `/items` — return views and downloads for all items that Solr knows about¹. Accepts `limit` and `page` query parameters for pagination of results.
   - GET `/item/id` — return views and downloads for a single item (*id* must be a positive integer).
 
-¹ We are querying the Solr statistics core, which technically only knows about all items that have either views or downloads.
+¹ We are querying the Solr statistics core, which technically only knows about items that have either views or downloads.
 
 ## Todo