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 **Authelia** is an open-source authentication and authorization server
 providing 2-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for your
 applications via a web portal.
-It acts as a companion of reverse proxies like [nginx] or [Traefik] to tell them wether queries should pass through. Unauthenticated user are
+It acts as a companion of reverse proxies like [nginx] or [Traefik] to let them know whether queries should pass through. Unauthenticated user are
 redirected to Authelia Sign-in portal instead.
 
 The architecture is shown in the diagram below.
@@ -124,4 +124,4 @@ in [LICENSE](./LICENSE).
 [nginx]: https://www.nginx.com/
 [Traefik]: https://traefik.io/
 [HAproxy]: http://www.haproxy.org/
-[Kubernetes]: https://kubernetes.io/
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+[Kubernetes]: https://kubernetes.io/