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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ A pure-JavaScript memcached library for node.
 Tests
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-To run the test suite, first insall <a href="http://github.com/visionmedia/expresso">expresso</a>,
+To run the test suite, first install <a href="http://github.com/visionmedia/expresso">expresso</a>,
 then run <code>make test</code>.
 
 If you have <a href="http://github.com/visionmedia/node-jscoverage">node-jscoverage</a> you can