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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ that implement the `Clone`, `serde::Deserialize`, and `serde::Serialize` traits.
 
 This crate follows in the footsteps of the
 [airtable-api](https://crates.io/crates/airtable-api) crate from Oxide Computer
-Company, which appears to have be archived and unmaintained since 2022.
+Company, which appears to have been archived and unmaintained since 2022.
 By comparison, Ferrtable aims to provide a more flexible and expressive client
 interface as well as greater control over paginated responses with the help of
 async [streams](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch17-04-streams.html).