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 There are still five PersistentVolumeClaims and five PersistentVolumes. 
-When exploring a Pod's [stable storage](#writing-to-stable-storage), we saw that the PersistentVolumes mounted to the Pods of a StatefulSet are not deleted whenthe StatefulSet's Pods are deleted. This is still true when Pod deletion is caused by scaling the StatefulSet down. 
+When exploring a Pod's [stable storage](#writing-to-stable-storage), we saw that the PersistentVolumes mounted to the Pods of a StatefulSet are not deleted when the StatefulSet's Pods are deleted. This is still true when Pod deletion is caused by scaling the StatefulSet down. 
 
 ## Updating StatefulSets