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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Sun Nov  3 09:35:47 2013  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 	* load.c (search_required, rb_require_safe): deal with statically
 	  linked extensions.
 
-	* load.c (ruby_init_ext): defer initalization of statically linked
+	* load.c (ruby_init_ext): defer initialization of statically linked
 	  extensions until required actually.  [Bug #8883]
 
 Sat Nov  2 15:14:33 2013  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>