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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ by the program itself. This gives Lisp powerful metaprogramming capabilities thr
 time. Therefore, Lisp source code directly represents the program as a tree without extra superfluous syntax
 (as in mainstream [programming languages](programming_language.md)).
 
-A Lisp can be built on a basic set of primitives such as `cons`, `car`, `cdr`, `lambda`, `apply`, `eval`, `eq`, `quote` and others (as decribed in the
+A Lisp can be built on a basic set of primitives such as `cons`, `car`, `cdr`, `lambda`, `apply`, `eval`, `eq`, `quote` and others (as described in the
 Lisp 1.5 manual).
 Since it is based on the [lambda calculus](lambda_calculus.md) a Lisp could also be built in terms of lambdas.
 For example, using Church encoding this is how `cons` cells could be implemented using only lambdas: