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 Bootstrap is a sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development, created and maintained by [Mark Otto](http://twitter.com/mdo) and [Jacob Thornton](http://twitter.com/fat).
 
-To get started, checkout [http://getbootstrap.com](http://getbootstrap.com)!
+To get started, check out [http://getbootstrap.com](http://getbootstrap.com)!