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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Speedb is a library that provides a high performance, persistent key-value store
 This is a community led project that focuses on high performance, optimized for modern storage hardware, on-premise and in the cloud.
 It is maintained by Speedb and is forked from Rocksdb, developed by Facebook.
 
-**Jois us to build the next generation data engine!**
+**Join us to build the next generation data engine!**
 
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