Update README.md with better wording

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Author: lcn2

README.md

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ has happened, it is time to retire this repo that as served the
 IOCCC well since it was forked on 2022 Sep 18 17:30 🕠 Pacific time.
 
 We plan to, on 2024 Dec 30, archive this repo and make it **Read Only**.
-We **THANK** the many who put **THURSANDS OF HOURS OF HARD WORK** on this repo since
-it was forked.
+We **THANK** the many people who put **THURSANDS OF HOURS OF HARD WORK** on this repo since
+it was forked back in 2022.
 
 If you are reading this after we have archived this repo and put this repo
 into **Read Only** mode, then we invite you to visit the merge target of this repo: