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   o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
-    - Count total create cells vs dropped rate cells properly, when
+    - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
       assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
       count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
       client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines