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   both the gRPC and REST flavours, which has been standardised and adopted by
   various model serving frameworks.
 
-You can read more about the goals of this project on the [inital design
+You can read more about the goals of this project on the [initial design
 document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C2uf4SaAtwLTlBCciOhvdiKQ2Eay4U72VxAD4bXe7iU/edit?usp=sharing).
 
 ## Usage