diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8218f36..5710666 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Features:
 
   * No dependencies
   * Parses both requests and responses.
-  * Handles perstent streams.
+  * Handles persistent streams.
   * Decodes chunked encoding.
   * Extracts the following data from a message
     * header fields and values