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@@ -204,17 +204,17 @@ Please take a quick gander at the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/a
 * [binpacker](https://github.com/zhuangsirui/binpacker) - Binary packer and unpacker helps user build custom binary stream.
 * [bitset](https://github.com/willf/bitset) - Go package implementing bitsets.
 * [bloom](https://github.com/zhenjl/bloom) - Bloom filters implemented in Go.
-* [boomfilters](https://github.com/tylertreat/BoomFilters) - probabilistic data structures for processing continuous, unbounded streams
+* [boomfilters](https://github.com/tylertreat/BoomFilters) - Probabilistic data structures for processing continuous, unbounded streams
 * [count-min-log](https://github.com/seiflotfy/count-min-log) - A Go implementation Count-Min-Log sketch: Approximately counting with approximate counters (Like Count-Min sketch but using less memory).
 * [cuckoofilter](https://github.com/seiflotfy/cuckoofilter) - Cuckoo filter: a good alternative to a counting bloom filter implemented in Go.
 * [encoding](https://github.com/zhenjl/encoding) - Integer Compression Libraries for Go.
 * [go-adaptive-radix-tree](https://github.com/plar/go-adaptive-radix-tree) - A Go implementation of Adaptive Radix Tree.
-* [go-datastructures](https://github.com/Workiva/go-datastructures) - a collection of useful, performant, and thread-safe data structures
+* [go-datastructures](https://github.com/Workiva/go-datastructures) - A collection of useful, performant, and thread-safe data structures
 * [go-geoindex](https://github.com/hailocab/go-geoindex) - In-memory geo index.
 * [gods](https://github.com/emirpasic/gods) - Go Data Structures. Containers, Sets, Lists, Stacks, Maps, BidiMaps, Trees, HashSet etc.
 * [golang-set](https://github.com/deckarep/golang-set) - Thread-Safe and Non-Thread-Safe high-performance sets for Go.
 * [goskiplist](https://github.com/ryszard/goskiplist) - A skip list implementation in Go.
-* [levenshtein](https://github.com/agnivade/levenshtein) - Implmentation to calculate levenshtein distance in Go.
+* [levenshtein](https://github.com/agnivade/levenshtein) - Implementation to calculate levenshtein distance in Go.
 * [mafsa](https://github.com/smartystreets/mafsa) - MA-FSA implementation with Minimal Perfect Hashing
 * [roaring](https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/roaring) - Go package implementing compressed bitsets.
 * [skiplist](https://github.com/gansidui/skiplist) - Skiplist implementation in Go
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ Please take a quick gander at the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/a
 * [influxdb](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb) - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
 * [ledisdb](https://github.com/siddontang/ledisdb) - Ledisdb is a high performance NoSQL like Redis based on LevelDB.
 * [levigo](https://github.com/jmhodges/levigo) - Levigo is a Go wrapper for LevelDB.
-* [prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus) -  Monitoring system and time series database.
+* [prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus) - Monitoring system and time series database.
 * [rqlite](https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite) - Replicated SQLite, using Raft consensus.
 * [tidb](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb) - TiDB is a distributed SQL database. Inspired by the design of Google F1.
 * [tiedot](https://github.com/HouzuoGuo/tiedot) - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang.
@@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ See [go-hardware](https://github.com/rakyll/go-hardware) for a comprehensive lis
 * [TheMovieDb](https://github.com/jbrodriguez/go-tmdb) - A simple golang package to communicate with [themoviedb.org](https://themoviedb.org)
 * [translate](https://github.com/poorny/translate) - Go online translation package.
 * [tumblr](https://github.com/mattcunningham/gumblr) - Go wrapper for the Tumblr v2 API.
-* [webhooks](https://github.com/go-playground/webhooks) - Webhook reciever for GitHub and Bitbucket.
+* [webhooks](https://github.com/go-playground/webhooks) - Webhook receiver for GitHub and Bitbucket.
 
 ## Utilities
 
@@ -1258,7 +1258,7 @@ Where to discover new Go libraries.
 ## Benchmarks
 
 * [autobench](https://github.com/davecheney/autobench) - Framework to compare the performance between different Go versions.
-* [go-benchmarks](https://github.com/tylertreat/go-benchmarks) - A few miscellaneous Go microbenchmarks. Compare some language features to alternative aproaches.
+* [go-benchmarks](https://github.com/tylertreat/go-benchmarks) - A few miscellaneous Go microbenchmarks. Compare some language features to alternative approaches.
 * [go-http-routing-benchmark](https://github.com/julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark) - Go HTTP request router benchmark and comparison.
 * [go-type-assertion-benchmark](https://github.com/hgfischer/go-type-assertion-benchmark) - Naive performance test of two ways to do type assertion in Go.
 * [go_serialization_benchmarks](https://github.com/alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks) - Benchmarks of Go serialization methods.