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 # pup
 
 pup is a command line tool for processing HTML. It reads from stdin,
-prints to stdout, and allows the user to filter parts ot the page using
+prints to stdout, and allows the user to filter parts of the page using
 [CSS selectors](http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp).
 
 Inspired by [jq](http://stedolan.github.io/jq/), pup aims to be a