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 ## Why? 
 I love the idea behind bashhub. Having my shell history centralized and queryable from various systems whether it 
 be my home computer or from an ssh session on a server is great. However, even with encryption, 
-I was weary of sending my shell commands to a third-party server, so bashhub-server was created.
+I was leary of sending my shell commands to a third-party server, so bashhub-server was created.
 
 
 ## Installation