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 .SH DESCRIPTION
 Janet is a functional and imperative programming language and bytecode interpreter.
 It is a modern lisp, but lists are replaced by other data structures with better utility
-and performance (arrays, tables, structs, tuples). The language also bridging bridging
+and performance (arrays, tables, structs, tuples). The language also bridging
 to native code written in C, meta-programming with macros, and bytecode assembly.
 
 There is a repl for trying out the language, as well as the ability to run script files.