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@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ some fairly obscure words get on it. If you can live with
 having to remember six words the wordlist is much shorter.
 The six word wordlist comes from the amazing [humanhash][humanhash]
 library. Words were chosen to maximise clarity in human
-communication.
+communication, they should be more familiar than the words
+on the three wordlist:
 
     >>> six = these.six_words(CERN)
     >>> print six
@@ -83,4 +84,4 @@ this is a [@betatim][betatim] kind of idea
 [geohash]: https://code.google.com/p/python-geohash/
 [cernmap]: https://www.google.ch/maps/place/46%C2%B013'56.4%22N+6%C2%B003'19.5%22E/@46.2323356,6.0554194,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
 [othercernmap]: https://www.google.ch/maps/place/46%C2%B015'24.5%22N+6%C2%B003'24.4%22E/@46.256811,6.056792,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
-[betatim]: https://twitter.com/betatim
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+[betatim]: https://twitter.com/betatim