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 You may want to read why it is a good idea to [store config in the environment](http://12factor.net/config).
 The idea of [dotenv](http://opensoul.org/2012/07/24/dotenv/) is to make this as easy as possible and this is why
 the [phpdotenv](https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv) library was created.
-phpdotnev loads environment variables from an `.env` file to getenv(), $_ENV and $_SERVER, but you need to
+phpdotenv loads environment variables from an `.env` file to getenv(), $_ENV and $_SERVER, but you need to
 add the parsing code for that yourself.
 
 ## composer + symfony/dotenv + dotenv connector = <3