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@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ <h2><a name="introduction"></a>Introduction</h2>
 that can be used to read files stored inside zip files. It uses 
 <a href="http://zziplib.sourceforge.net">zziplib</a> to do all the hard work.</p>
 
-<p>The API exposed to Lua is very simple and very similiar to the usual file handling 
+<p>The API exposed to Lua is very simple and very similar to the usual file handling 
 functions provided by the
 <a href="http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/manual.html#5.6">I/O Lua standard library</a>.
 In fact, the API is so similar that parts of this manual are extracted from the Lua manual,