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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pybloom
     :target: https://travis-ci.org/jaybaird/python-bloomfilter
 
 ``pybloom`` is a module that includes a Bloom Filter data structure along with
-an implmentation of Scalable Bloom Filters as discussed in:
+an implementation of Scalable Bloom Filters as discussed in:
 
 P. Almeida, C.Baquero, N. Preguiça, D. Hutchison, Scalable Bloom Filters,
 (GLOBECOM 2007), IEEE, 2007.