fix hyphenation, nits

spikecurtis · spikecurtis · commit b8f917a8b4b5 · 2025-09-04T09:31:40.000Z
diff --git a/docs/about/contributing/CONTRIBUTING.md b/docs/about/contributing/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ We welcome pull requests (PRs) from community members including (but not limited
 
 We will ask that you sign a Contributor License Agreement before we accept any contributions into our repo.
 
-Please keep PRs small and self contained. This allows code reviewers (see below) to focus and fully understand the PR. A good rule of thumb is less than 1000 lines changed. (One exception is a mechanistic refactor, like renaming, that is conceptually trivial but might have a large line count.)
+Please keep PRs small and self-contained. This allows code reviewers (see below) to focus and fully understand the PR. A good rule of thumb is less than 1000 lines changed. (One exception is a mechanistic refactor, like renaming, that is conceptually trivial but might have a large line count.)
 
 If your intended feature or refactor will be larger than this:
 
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Stacking tools like [Graphite](https://www.graphite.dev) are useful for keeping
 Each PR:
 
 - Must individually build and pass all tests, including formatting and linting.
-- Must not introduce regressions or back compatibility issues, even if a later PR would resolve the issue.
+- Must not introduce regressions or backward-compatibility issues, even if a subsequent PR in your series would resolve the issue.
 - Should be a conceptually coherent change set.
 
 In practice, many of these smaller PRs will be invisible to end users, and that is ok. For example, you might introduce
