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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ slow, very unstable, hard to make sense of the output, impossible to debug,
 hard to write tests for, hard to run on multiple environments, and parallelism
 was not a thing.
 
-Spread came out as a plesant way to fix that. A few simple and concrete
+Spread came out as a pleasant way to fix that. A few simple and concrete
 concepts that are fun to play with and fix the exact piece missing in the
 puzzle. It's not Jenkins, it's not Travis, it's not a library, not a language,
 and it's not even specific to testing. It's a simple way to express what to run