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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Contributions are welcome! Simply send a patch file to me, or a PR if I get arou
  - Figure out a clever solution to stop (theoretical) spam
  - Do some more thought experiments to identify any (more) potential vulnerabilities / problems
  - Figure out a way to allow collected stack traces to be deleted
- - Perhaps write a stack trace parser to figure out which file an error has ocurred in
+ - Perhaps write a stack trace parser to figure out which file an error has occurred in
  - Add more to this list as I use it for real
 
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