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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Release v\ |version|. (:ref:`Installation <install>`)
 See `similar code, sans Requests <https://gist.github.com/973705>`_.
 
 
-**Requests** allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extrmely easily. 
+**Requests** allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. 
 There's no need to manually add query strings to your
 URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling
 are 100% automatic, thanks to `urllib3 <https://github.com/shazow/urllib3>`_.