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 Contributing to HTTPie
 ######################
 
-Bug reports and code and documentation patches are greatly appretiated. You can
+Bug reports and code and documentation patches are greatly appreciated. You can
 also help by using the development version of HTTPie and reporting any bugs you
 might encounter.