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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ There are several programs that convert markdown ([GitHub-flavored markdown](htt
 
 It's not a program, but a library. (Although it only requires three lines to make it a program, see above). And in particular it is a library for *Awk.* It is meant for people who need to add markdown support to an Awk program.
 
-You could, of course, call an external program from your Awk script to convert markdown to HTML. But this library provides two extra functions that may occasionally be handy and that existing programs don't provide. (At least I haven't found any.) And that is the ability to parse inline markdown only, i.e., bold, italics, links, etc., while ignoring paragraphsm lists, etc.; and the ability to strip markdown from text to retain just the plain text content.
+You could, of course, call an external program from your Awk script to convert markdown to HTML. But this library provides two extra functions that may occasionally be handy and that existing programs don't provide. (At least I haven't found any.) And that is the ability to parse inline markdown only, i.e., bold, italics, links, etc., while ignoring paragraphs, lists, etc.; and the ability to strip markdown from text to retain just the plain text content.
 
 The former is provided by the function `markdown::to_inline_html()`, the latter by the function `markdown::to_text()`.