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 Although the ugliness and inconvenience in the current situation have ben acknowledged 
 and discussed for a very long time, there has never been an agreement about the usefulness,
-the semantics, nor the syntax for a solution. That way the _status quo_ has remained unchanged.
+the semantics, nor the syntax of a solution. That way the _status quo_ has remained unchanged.
 
 You can find a recent discussion about these topics on the 
 [Python Ideas](https://discuss.python.org/t/revisit-mutable-default-arguments/) site.