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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Here lives the [BrowserID] implementation.  BrowserID is an implementation of th
 This repository contains several distinct things related to BrowserID:
 
   * **the browserid server** - a node.js server which implements a web services api, stores a record of users, the email addresses they've verified, a bcrypted password, outstanding verification tokens, etc
-  * **the verifier** - a stateless node.js server which does cryptographic verification of assertions. This thing is hosted on browserid.org as a convenience, but people using browserid can choose to relocated it if they want to their own servers.
+  * **the verifier** - a stateless node.js server which does cryptographic verification of assertions. This thing is hosted on browserid.org as a convenience, but people using browserid can choose to host their own version if they wish to.
   * **sample and test code** - to test the above
   * **the browserid.org website** - the templates, css, and javascript that make up the visible part of browserid.org
   * **the javascript/HTML dialog & include library** - this is include.js and the code that it includes, the bit that someone using browserid will include.