diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: colourvalues
 Type: Package
 Title: Assigns Colours to Values
 Version: 0.2.1
-Date: 2018-12-18
+Date: 2018-12-19
 Authors@R: c(
     person("David", "Cooley", ,"dcooley@symbolix.com.au", role = c("aut", "cre"))
     )
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # v0.2.1
 
 * `show_colours()` to plot all colour palettes
-* added more colour palettes. Use `colour_palettes()` to list all colour palettes
+* added more colour palettes. Use `colour_palettes()` to list them
 * fix NA values in summary [issue 39](https://github.com/SymbolixAU/colourvalues/issues/39)
 * alpha now accepts fewer than 5 values when using a vector