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 ## Migrating from a manual changelog
 
 Knowing how dedicated you are to your project, you probably haven't been waiting for github-changelog-generator to keep a changelog,
-but you most likely wouln't like to have to open issues and PRs for all past features listed in your historic changelog.
+but you most likely wouldn't like to have to open issues and PRs for all past features listed in your historic changelog.
 
 That's where `--base` comes handy. This option lets you pass a static changelog to be appended at the end of the generated entries.