typo in README

README.md

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ end
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 **NOTE:** Starting with version 4 there is an additional 4 bytes in the repeated
-*inline* record copy (the record that preceeds the actual file date, not the
+*inline* record copy (the record that precedes the actual file date, not the
 record in the index). I don't know what that is. It is not always the same value.
 E.g. it is the same for some files, but different for others. The last 2 bytes
 are more often the same than the whole 4 bytes.