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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The following directories contain the projects:
 
 | Directory Name | Project description |
 | --------------:|:------------------- |
-| antidotum (lating antidote) | `anitodutm` contains the R bindings (ie. an R package) for the Rust formatting library |
+| antidotum (latin antidote) | `anitodutm` contains the R bindings (ie. an R package) for the Rust formatting library |
 | aqua (latin water) | `aqua` houses a Rust library that implements a basic R **tokenizer** |
 | balnea (latin bath) | `balnea` contains a Rust library that acts as **an entrypoint** to general formatting workflows |
 | scopa (latin broom) | `scopa` conains **a Visual Studio Code extension** that acts as a code formatter for R language |