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@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ the following implications:
 - "READ": calls `QueryHelper()`, and then returns the current value. 
 - "SLEEP": sleeps an integer number of seconds.
 - All others are strings that should be copied verbatim to the oid as
-  new values for the associate object.
+  new values for the associated object.
 
 All transactional fates are determined independently, but
 deterministically, by each tango library. Recall (from the paper),