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 # ShadyCSS
 
-ShadyCSS provides a library to simulate ShadowDOM style encapsulation (ScopingShim), a shim for the proposed CSS mixin `@apply` styntax (ApplyShim), and a library to integrate document-level stylesheets with both of the former libraries (CustomStyleInterface).
+ShadyCSS provides a library to simulate ShadowDOM style encapsulation (ScopingShim), a shim for the proposed CSS mixin `@apply` syntax (ApplyShim), and a library to integrate document-level stylesheets with both of the former libraries (CustomStyleInterface).
 
 ## Requirements
 ShadyCSS requires support for the `<template>` element, ShadowDOM, MutationObserver, Promise, and Object.assign