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timhoffm · story645 · web-flow · commit 2fe9ef94b408 · 2025-08-11T07:38:28.000+02:00
Co-authored-by: hannah &lt;story645@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/scale.py b/lib/matplotlib/scale.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def __init__(self, axis):
         The following note is for scale implementers.
 
         For back-compatibility reasons, scales take an `~matplotlib.axis.Axis`
-        object as first argument. 
+        object as the first argument. 
 
         The current recommendation for `.ScaleBase` subclasses is to have the
         *axis* parameter for API compatibility, but not make use of it. This is
@@ -242,8 +242,8 @@ def __init__(self, axis, functions):
             The axis for the scale.
 
             .. note::
-                This parameter is unused and about to be removed in the future.
-                It can already now be left out because of special preprocessing,
+                This parameter is unused and will be removed in an imminent release.
+                It can already be left out because of special preprocessing,
                 so that ``FuncScale(functions)`` is valid.
 
         functions : (callable, callable)
