diff --git a/src/risk.md b/src/risk.md
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ and user experience of such tools is lacking.
 
 ![](https://docs.openprivacy.ca/cwtch-security-handbook/4.png)
 
-Cwtch was originally concieved an extension of the metadata resistant protocol
+Cwtch was originally conceived as an extension of the metadata resistant protocol
 Ricochet to support asynchronous, multi-peer group communications through the 
 use of discardable, untrusted, anonymous infrastructure.