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 Thu Oct  6 17:29:44 2016  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* load.c (rb_require_safe): SyntaxError created by the parser just
-	  has the mesage and needs to set up the backtrace.
+	  has the message and needs to set up the backtrace.
 	  [ruby-core:77491] [Bug #12811]
 
 	* load.c (rb_load_internal0): load/require is not the main