// write_little_endian() is our utility to write an integer (signed or unsigned, any size)
// to a stream in little-endian order. We swap the byte order before the write if
- // necessary to always write in little endian order, independantly of the byte
+ // necessary to always write in little endian order, independently of the byte
// ordering of the compiling machine.
template <typename IntType>
inline void write_little_endian(std::ostream& stream, IntType value) {