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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ documentation of each of its APIs.
 
 ## Tests
 
-The test suite includs roundtrip tests against:
+The test suite includes roundtrip tests against:
 * Arrow IPC (both little and big endian)
 * parquet format (in its different configurations)