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 This is a port of Thomas Hinkle (thinkle) Gourmet Recipe Manager.
 
 As explained in the original version, thinkle's original Gourmet Recipe Manager
-desktop app has suffered frequently ovver the years by changes made to external
+desktop app has suffered frequently over the years by changes made to external
 components that it depended on and unfortunately he has not had the time to
 repair the the app after recent upgrades (including Python 3 and Gnome library) changes broke it.