diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ This example emits:
 The scheme I follow is most succintly described by the bootstrap guys
 [here](https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap#versioning). 
 
-tl;dr: All versions a `<major>.<minor>.<patch>` which will be incremented for
+tl;dr: All versions are `<major>.<minor>.<patch>` which will be incremented for
 breaking backward compat and major reworks, new features without breaking
 change, and bug fixes, respectively.