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 Pure javascript NMEA 2000 decoder and encoder
 
-Canboatjs is a port of the canboat project (https://github.com/canboat/canboat) to javascript and it is inteded to be used with the [Signal K Node Server](https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server-node)
+Canboatjs is a port of the canboat project (https://github.com/canboat/canboat) to javascript and it is intended to be used with the [Signal K Node Server](https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server-node)
 
 # Contributors
 Canboajs js is built on the backs of a few people whithout whom it would not be possible.