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 General guidance
 ================
 
-* The usual principes of respecting existing conventions and making sure that your changes
+* The usual principles of respecting existing conventions and making sure that your changes
   are in line with the overall product design apply when contributing code to Pyenv.
 
 * We are limited to Bash 3.2 features