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 Introducing exceptions to an existing non-exception-based codebase can be perilous. The console was originally written
 in C at a time when C++ was relatively unused in the Windows operating system. As part of our project to modernize the
 Windows console, we converted to use C++, but still had an aversion to using exception-based error handling in
-our code for fear that it introduce unexpected failures. However, the STL and other libraries like it are so useful that
+our code for fear that it might introduce unexpected failures. However, the STL and other libraries like it are so useful that
 sometimes it's significantly simpler to use them. Given that, we have a set of rules that we follow when considering
 exception use.