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 [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/juju/errors?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/juju/errors)
 
 The juju/errors provides an easy way to annotate errors without losing the
-orginal error context.
+original error context.
 
 The exported `New` and `Errorf` functions are designed to replace the
 `errors.New` and `fmt.Errorf` functions respectively. The same underlying
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