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 Although the Kiwix tools can be compiled/cross-compiled on/for many
 sytems, the following documentation explains how to do it on POSIX
-ones. It is primarly though for GNU/Linux systems and has been tested
+ones. It is primarly thought for GNU/Linux systems and has been tested
 on recent releases of Ubuntu and Fedora.
 
 Dependencies