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 # Bor Overview
-Bor is the Official Golang implementation of the Matic protocol. It is a fork of Go Ethereum - https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum and EVM compabile.
+Bor is the Official Golang implementation of the Matic protocol. It is a fork of Go Ethereum - https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum and EVM compatible.
 
 ![Forks](https://img.shields.io/github/forks/maticnetwork/bor?style=social)
 ![Stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/maticnetwork/bor?style=social)