diff --git a/README b/README
index 27af3aa79..909b5f15d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ StateMachineGamer class. StateMachineGamer is based on the state machine view
 of general game playing, in which playing a game is represented as proceeding
 through a state machine. The underlying state machine, which you can access via
 getStateMachine() when inheriting from StateMachineGamer, provides methods that
-you can use to investigate the game being player:
+you can use to investigate the game being played:
 
     * Each game has a starting state.
         getInitialState() is the starting state.
@@ -85,4 +85,4 @@ non-GUI player and server applications.
 
 * This project is licensed under the New BSD License. Licensing information for
   the project can be found in the licenses/LICENSE file. Licensing information
-  for the included external libraries can be found in the licenses/ directory.
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+  for the included external libraries can be found in the licenses/ directory.