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 # Chymeric Gentoo Overlay
 
 An overlay for Gentoo, with various packages used and/or maintained by [TheChymera](https://github.com/TheChymera).
-A number of the ebuilds available from this verlay are regularly copied from external sources (see respective commit mesages), and thus have a different maintainer.
+A number of the ebuilds available from this overlay are regularly copied from external sources (see respective commit mesages), and thus have a different maintainer.
 The repository structure is somewhat based on that of the *gentoo science overlay*, and we also use thin manifests.
 
 If you are looking for the neuroscience software packages maintained by [TheChymera](https://github.com/TheChymera), use the [NeuroGentoo overlay](https://github.com/TheChymera/neurogentoo) instead.
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 ##Install
 
 As per the [current Portage specifications](https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/portage.5.html), overlays should be managed via `/etc/portage/repos.conf/`.
-To enable this overlay make sure you are using a recent Portage version (at least `2.2.14`), and crate an `/etc/portage/repos.conf/chymeric` file containing precisely:
+To enable this overlay make sure you are using a recent Portage version (at least `2.2.14`), and create an `/etc/portage/repos.conf/chymeric` file containing precisely:
 
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 [chymeric]