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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ the name of the function, resulting in a much smaller executable. This
executable has the disadvantage of being somewhat slower than a statically
linked one, as the linking at run time takes a few moments.</para>
-<para>Aside form this small drawback, dynamic linking has two major advantages
+<para>Aside from this small drawback, dynamic linking has two major advantages
over static linking. First, you need only one copy of the executable library
code on your hard disk, instead of having many copies of the same code included
into a whole bunch of programs -- thus saving disk space. Second, when several