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 Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby
 
 **The rspec metagem repository has been renamed to rspec-metagem, please update
-any rspec/rspec Github references to rspec/rspec-metagem, this is in prepartion
+any rspec/rspec Github references to rspec/rspec-metagem, this is in preparation
 for a new mono-repo approach to RSpec dev to unify issue tracking and PR management**
 
 ## Description