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 **Welcome to Swift!**
 
 Swift is a high-performance system programming language.  It has a clean
-and modern syntax, and offers seamless access to existing C and Objective-C code
+and modern syntax, offers seamless access to existing C and Objective-C code
 and frameworks, and is memory safe (by default).
 
 Although inspired by Objective-C and many other languages, Swift is not itself a