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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ out collectively by the network. Bitcoin is also the name of the open source
 software which enables the use of this currency.
 
 For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
-the Bitcoin client sofware, see http://www.bitcoin.org.
+the Bitcoin client software, see http://www.bitcoin.org.
 
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