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 # simple-linguist [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/src-d/simple-linguist.v1?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/src-d/simple-linguist.v1) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/src-d/simple-linguist.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/src-d/simple-linguist)
 
-File language detector and toolbox to ignore binary or vendored files. *simple-linguist*, is our port to _Go_ of the original [lignuist](https://github.com/github/linguist) _Ruby_ library, with fewer precision in arcane languages but with an improved *performance of 100x*.
+File language detector and toolbox to ignore binary or vendored files. *simple-linguist*, is our port to _Go_ of the original [linguist](https://github.com/github/linguist) _Ruby_ library, with fewer precision in arcane languages but with an improved *performance of 100x*.
 
 
 Installation
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-MIT, see [LICENSE](LICENSE)
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+MIT, see [LICENSE](LICENSE)