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 ii is a minimalistic FIFO and filesystem based IRC client.  It creates an irc
 directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories.  In every
-directory a FIFO file (in) and and normal file (out) is placed.
+directory a FIFO file (in) and normal file (out) is placed.
 
 The in file is used to communicate with the servers and the out files include
 the server messages. For every channel and every nick name there will be new in
diff --git a/ii.1 b/ii.1
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+++ b/ii.1
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ii \- irc it or irc improved
 is a minimalistic FIFO and filesystem based IRC client.
 It creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and
 nick name directories.
-In every directory a FIFO file (in) and and normal file (out)
+In every directory a FIFO file (in) and normal file (out)
 is placed. This will be for example ~/irc/irc.freenode.net/.
 The in file is used to communicate with the servers and the out
 files includes the server messages. For every channel and every nick