Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>

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diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml 
b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
index 434a7d1..0f7708e 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
@@ -511,6 +511,10 @@
                 <para>Information in append files overrides the information in 
the similarly-named recipe file.
                 For an example of an append file in use, see the
                 "<link linkend='using-bbappend-files'>Using .bbappend 
Files</link>" section.
+                <note>
+                    Append files can also use wildcard patterns in their 
version numbers
+                    so they can be applied to more than one version of the 
underlying recipe file.
+                </note>
                 </para></listitem>
             <listitem><para id='bitbake-term'><emphasis>BitBake:</emphasis>
                 The task executor and scheduler used by the OpenEmbedded build
@@ -686,7 +690,7 @@
                 This Metadata is found in the <filename>meta</filename> 
directory of the
                 <link linkend='source-directory'>Source 
Directory</link>.</para></listitem>
             <listitem><para><emphasis>Package:</emphasis>
-                In the context of the Yocto Project, this term refers a
+                In the context of the Yocto Project, this term refers to a
                 recipe's packaged output produced by BitBake (i.e. a
                 "baked recipe").
                 A package is generally the compiled binaries produced from the

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Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
                        http://crashcourse.ca

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