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--- a/readme.md
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ RapidJSON is a JSON parser and generator for C++. It was inspired by [rapidxml](
 
 * RapidJSON is memory friendly. Each JSON value occupies exactly 16/20 bytes for most 32/64-bit machines (excluding text string). By default it uses a fast memory allocator, and the parser allocates memory compactly during parsing.
 
-* RapidJSON is Unicode friendly. It supports UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 (LE & BE), and their detection, validataton and transcoding internally. For example, you can read a UTF-8 file and let RapidJSON transcode the JSON strings into UTF-16 in the DOM. It also supports surrogates and "\u0000" (null character).
+* RapidJSON is Unicode friendly. It supports UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 (LE & BE), and their detection, validation and transcoding internally. For example, you can read a UTF-8 file and let RapidJSON transcode the JSON strings into UTF-16 in the DOM. It also supports surrogates and "\u0000" (null character).
 
 More features can be read [here](doc/features.md).
 
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ int main() {
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-Note that this exmample did not handle potential errors.
+Note that this example did not handle potential errors.
 
 The following diagram shows the process.
 
 ![simpledom](doc/diagram/simpledom.png?raw=true)
 
-More [examples](example/) are avaliable.
+More [examples](example/) are available.