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@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Grecs. Since then both Mailutils and Grecs versions are periodically
 synchronized.
 
 Several other projects, such as GNU Rush[6] and fileserv[7], followed
-the suite.  It was therefore decided that it would be advisable to
+suit.  It was therefore decided that it would be advisable to
 have wordsplit as a separate package which could be easily included in
 another project without incurring unnecessary overhead.