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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ thin_dump \- dump thin provisioning metadata from device or file to standard out
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 thin_dump dumps thin provisioning metadata created by the device-mapper
 thin provisioning target on a device or file to standard output for
-analysis or postprocessing in either XML or human redable format.
+analysis or postprocessing in either XML or human readable format.
 XML formated metadata can be fed into thin_restore (see
 .B thin_restore(8)
 ) in order to put it back onto a metadata device (to process by