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 # LAMEC
 
 The **LAMEC** API (**L**oad **A**I **M**odules, **E**nvironments, and **C**ontainers)
-is a tool that allows HPC developers and researches to share their configurations,
+is a tool that allows HPC developers and researchers to share their configurations,
 setups and jobscripts of commonly used frameworks and libraries, so they can be
 used to generate up to date jobscripts.