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 ## Acknowledgements
 
 This library is a fairly straightforward port of [Ryan Juckett][juckett]’s
-excellent damped simple harmonic oscillator originally writen in C++ in 2008
+excellent damped simple harmonic oscillator originally written in C++ in 2008
 and published in 2012. [Ryan’s writeup][writeup] on the subject is fantastic.
 
 [juckett]: https://www.ryanjuckett.com/