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 ### Outline
 
-This library exposes functionality to transalte numbers to words.
+This library exposes functionality to translate numbers to words.
 It is trivial code but the aim is to bundle it using webpack.
 
 ### Features
 
 1. Bundling library code into all library targets ie CommonJS, AMD, ES2015 exports, UMD.
-2. Having `lodash` as an external dependency. 
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+2. Having `lodash` as an external dependency.