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 ## INSTALLATION
 
-Qt >= 5.0.0 is required to use SDDM, although Qt >= 5.3.0 is reccomended.
+Qt >= 5.0.0 is required to use SDDM, although Qt >= 5.3.0 is recommended.
 
-SDDM runs the greeter as a system user named "sddm" whose home directory need
+SDDM runs the greeter as a system user named "sddm" whose home directory needs
 to be set to ```/var/lib/sddm```.
 
 If pam and systemd are available, the greeter will go through logind