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 lazy-static.rs
 ==============
 
-A macro for declaring lazily evaluated statics in Rust.
+A macro for declaring lazily evaluated statistics in Rust.
 
 Using this macro, it is possible to have `static`s that require code to be
 executed at runtime in order to be initialized.