If Skip Prefers mode is in effect, the @kbd{n} and @kbd{p} commands
skip over differences in states ``prefer-A'' and ``prefer-B''
(@pxref{State of Difference}). Thus you see only differences for
-which neither version is presumed ``correct''. The mode line
+which neither version is presumed correct. The mode line
indicates Skip Prefers mode with @samp{S}. This mode is only relevant
when there is an ancestor.
The difference is showing the A or the B state by default, because you
haven't made a choice. All differences start in the default-A state
(and thus the merge buffer is a copy of the A buffer), except those for
-which one alternative is ``preferred'' (see below).
+which one alternative is preferred (see below).
When you select a difference, its state changes from default-A or
default-B to plain A or B@. Thus, the selected difference never has