diff --git a/_episodes/01-tooling.md b/_episodes/01-tooling.md
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--- a/_episodes/01-tooling.md
+++ b/_episodes/01-tooling.md
@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ Git uses the term *clone* to mean "a copy of a repository",
 while GitHub uses the term *fork* to mean "a copy of a GitHub-hosted repo that is also hosted on GitHub"
 and the term *clone* to mean "a copy of a GitHub-hosted repo that's located on someone else's machine".
 In both cases,
-the duplicate has a remote called `origin` that points to the original repo;
-other remotes can be added manually.
+the duplicate has a reference that points to the original repo.
 
 A user on GitHub can only have one fork of a particular repo.
 This is a problem for us because an author may be involved in writing several lessons,