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 \pnum
 Members of an inline namespace can be used in most respects as though they were members
-of the enclosing namespace. Specifically, the inline namespace and its enclosing
+of the innermost enclosing namespace. Specifically, the inline namespace and its enclosing
 namespace are both added to the set of associated namespaces used in
 argument-dependent lookup\iref{basic.lookup.argdep} whenever one of them is,
 and a \grammarterm{using-directive}\iref{namespace.udir} that names the inline