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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ In case of questions about the contribution process or for discussion of specifi
 
 These guidelines are meant to be a living document that should be changed and adapted as needed. We encourage changes that makes it easier to achieve our goals in an efficient way.
 
-These guidelines mainly applies to Typesafe’s “mature” projects - not necessarily to projects of the type ‘collection of scripts’ etc.
+These guidelines mainly apply to Typesafe’s “mature” projects - not necessarily to projects of the type ‘collection of scripts’ etc.
 
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