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@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ federated site deployment for three different sites A, B and C is depicted below
 
 ### Backend Discovery
 
-MatrixRTC backend (according to
+The MatrixRTC backend (according to
 [MSC4143](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4143)) is
 announced by the Matrix site's `.well-known/matrix/client` file and discovered
 via the `org.matrix.msc4143.rtc_foci` key, e.g.: