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@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ Building the program with BLAS support may lead to some performance improvements
 
 To obtain the official LLaMA 2 weights please see the <a href="#obtaining-and-using-the-facebook-llama-2-model">Obtaining and using the Facebook LLaMA 2 model</a> section. There is also a large selection of pre-quantized `gguf` models available on Hugging Face.
 
-Note: `convert.py` has been moved to `examples/convert-legacy-llama.py` and shouldn't be used for anything other than `Llama/Llama2/Mistral` models and their derievatives.
+Note: `convert.py` has been moved to `examples/convert-legacy-llama.py` and shouldn't be used for anything other than `Llama/Llama2/Mistral` models and their derivatives.
 It does not support LLaMA 3, you can use `convert-hf-to-gguf.py` with LLaMA 3 downloaded from Hugging Face.
 
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