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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 564b087e..5046a9b4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
   Bison will stop adding a semicolon at the end of the actions (as announced
   in the release 2.5):
 
-    foo.y:2.22: warning: a ';' might be needed at the end of action code
-     exp: "num" { $$ = $1 }
-                          ^
-    foo.y:2.22:     future versions of Bison will not add the ';'
+    foo.y:2.25: warning: a ';' might be needed at the end of action code
+     exp: "number" { $$ = $1 }
+                             ^
+    foo.y:2.25:     future versions of Bison will not add the ';'
 
   Like other GNU packages, Bison will start using some of the C99 features
   for its own code, especially the definition of variables after statements.
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
   Contributed by Valentin Tolmer.
 
-  When developping and maintaining a grammar, useless associativity and
+  When developing and maintaining a grammar, useless associativity and
   precedence directives are common.  They can be a nuisance: new ambiguities
   arising are sometimes masked because their conflicts are resolved due to
   the extra precedence or associativity information.  Furthermore, it can
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
     %left '*'
     %%
     exp:
-      "num"
-    | exp '+' "num"
+      "number"
+    | exp '+' "number"
     | exp '*' exp
     ;
 
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
     %precedence '='
     %%
-    exp: "var" '=' "num";
+    exp: "var" '=' "number";
 
   will produce a
 
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
     %nonassoc '='
     %%
-    exp: "var" '=' "num";
+    exp: "var" '=' "number";
 
   The warning is:
 
@@ -364,6 +364,8 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
 ** Empty rules
 
+  With help from Joel E. Denny and Gabriel Rassoul.
+
   Empty rules (i.e., with an empty right-hand side) can now be explicitly
   marked by the new %empty directive.  Using %empty on a non-empty rule is
   an error.  The new -Wempty-rule warning reports empty rules without
@@ -432,7 +434,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
     ;
 
     list:
-      /* nothing */ { /* Generates an empty string list */ }
+      %empty        { /* Generates an empty string list. */ }
     | list item ";" { std::swap ($$, $1); $$.push_back ($2); }
     ;
 
@@ -509,8 +511,8 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
      exp: exp '+' exp { $exp = $1 + $3; };
                   ^^^
 
-  The default behaviour for now is still not to display these unless
-  explictly asked with -fcaret (or -fall). However, in a later release, it
+  The default behavior for now is still not to display these unless
+  explicitly asked with -fcaret (or -fall). However, in a later release, it
   will be made the default behavior (but may still be deactivated with
   -fno-caret).
 
@@ -597,7 +599,7 @@ GNU Bison NEWS
 
   Other issues in the test suite have been addressed.
 
-  Nul characters are correctly displayed in error messages.
+  Null characters are correctly displayed in error messages.
 
   When possible, yylloc is correctly initialized before calling yylex.  It
   is no longer necessary to initialize it in the %initial-action.
@@ -2513,7 +2515,12 @@ along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  LocalWords:  Automake TMPDIR LESSEQ ylwrap endif yydebug YYTOKEN YYLSP ival hh
  LocalWords:  extern YYTOKENTYPE TOKENTYPE yytokentype tokentype STYPE lval pdf
  LocalWords:  lang yyoutput dvi html ps POSIX lvalp llocp Wother nterm arg init
- LocalWords:  TOK calc yyo fval Wconflicts
+ LocalWords:  TOK calc yyo fval Wconflicts parsers yystackp yyval yynerrs
+ LocalWords:  Théophile Ranquet Santet fno fnone stype associativity Tolmer
+ LocalWords:  Wprecedence Rassoul Wempty Paolo Bonzini parser's Michiel loc
+ LocalWords:  redeclaration sval fcaret reentrant XSLT xsl Wmaybe yyvsp Tedi
+ LocalWords:  pragmas noreturn untyped Rozenman unexpanded Wojciech Polak
+ LocalWords:  Alexandre MERCHANTABILITY
 
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