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@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ and you should be rewarded with the classic `Hello, world.` being printed out to
 make test
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-There should be a screenful of gibberish. This is a test suite to run through a large chunk of PLASMA's functionality for a quick sannity check, including dynamic module loading: `TESTLIB` in this case.
+There should be a screenful of gibberish. This is a test suite to run through a large chunk of PLASMA's functionality for a quick sanity check, including dynamic module loading: `TESTLIB` in this case.
 
 ### Target VM