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@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ or not and which is the registrar but not the owner information.
 
 ### UTF-8
 
-PHPWhois will assume that all whois servers resturn UTF-8 encoded output,
+PHPWhois will assume that all whois servers return UTF-8 encoded output,
 if some whois server does not return UTF-8 data, you can include it in
 the `NON_UTF8` array in whois.servers.php