diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 735771ef..eac78059 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ libvips is a 2D image processing library. Compared to similar libraries,
 [libvips runs quickly and uses little
 memory](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Speed_and_Memory_Use).
 
-It has around 300 operations, covering arithmetic, histograms, convolutions,
+It has around 300 operations covering arithmetic, histograms, convolutions,
 morphological operations, frequency filtering, colour, resampling, statistics
 and others. It supports a large range of numeric formats, from 8-bit int to
 128-bit complex. It supports a good range of image formats, including
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ images via ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick.
 
 It has APIs for C and C++ and comes with a Python
 binding and a command-line interface. Bindings are
-available for Ruby, JavaScript and others.  There is full [API
+available for Ruby, JavaScript and others.  There is [API
 documentation](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/doc/html/libvips/index.html),
 plus a [tutorial-style
 manual](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/doc/html/vipsmanual/vipsmanual.html).
@@ -55,10 +55,6 @@ Then for a debug build:
 	$ make
 	$ make install
 
-Static analysis with:
-
-	$ cppcheck --force --enable=style . &> cppcheck.log
-
 Leak check:
 
 	$ export G_DEBUG=gc-friendly
@@ -105,6 +101,10 @@ Build with the GCC auto-vectorizer and diagnostics (or just -O3):
 		./configure --prefix=/home/john/vips --disable-introspection \
 		--enable-debug=no
 
+Static analysis with:
+
+	$ cppcheck --force --enable=style . &> cppcheck.log
+
 # Dependencies 
 
 libvips has to have gettext, glib-2.x and libxml-2.0. The build system needs