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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ package for any projects needing to use or validate bitcoin transaction scripts.
 
 ## Bitcoin Scripts
 
-Bitcoin provides a stack-based, FORTH-like langauge for the scripts in
+Bitcoin provides a stack-based, FORTH-like language for the scripts in
 the bitcoin transactions.  This language is not turing complete
 although it is still fairly powerful.  A description of the language
 can be found at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script