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 tool should make it easy for users to migrate their old configurations to TOML.
 
 ## Contributing ##
-the irc crate is an free, open source library that relies on contributions from its maintainers,
+the irc crate is a free, open source library that relies on contributions from its maintainers,
 Aaron Weiss ([@aatxe][awe]) and Peter Atashian ([@retep998][bun]), as well as the broader Rust
 community. It's licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 whose text can be found in
 `LICENSE.md`. To foster an inclusive community around the irc crate, we have adopted a Code of