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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ This is a replacement for Rust’s “old” (as of July 2014) `url` crate.
 See [Rust bug #10707](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/10707).
 
 This builds with [Cargo](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo),
-pulling in [rust-encoding](https://github.com/lifthrasiir/rust-encoding) as a depedency.
+pulling in [rust-encoding](https://github.com/lifthrasiir/rust-encoding) as a dependency.
 
 [Documentation](http://servo.github.io/rust-url/url/index.html)