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 ## WHAT IS IT? ##
 
 Devede NG is a rewrite of the Devede DVD disc authoring program. This new
-code has been writen from scratch, and uses Python3 and Gtk3. It is also
+code has been written from scratch, and uses Python3 and Gtk3. It is also
 cleaner, which will allow to add new features in the future.