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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Snappy has the following properties:
  * Stable: Over the last few years, Snappy has compressed and decompressed
    petabytes of data in Google's production environment. The Snappy bitstream
    format is stable and will not change between versions.
- * Robust: The Snappy decompressor is designed no to crash in the face of
+ * Robust: The Snappy decompressor is designed not to crash in the face of
    corrupted or malicious input.
  * Free and open source software: Snappy is licensed under the Apache license,
    version 2.0. For more information, see the included COPYING file.