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@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ I'm looking into implementing following features:
 
 `pretty` is a large and slow library, and is not designed for serialization
 purposes, nor is `pretty` concerned with offering the same level of
-stabilizability as other libraries do.
+customization as other libraries do.
 
 Luckily Lua has a large library of pretty printers and serialization libraries: