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@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ optionally be separated so Rosenstraße and Rosen Straße are equivalent.
 for a wide variety of countries and languages, not just US/English. 
 The model is trained on over 1 billion addresses and address-like strings, using the
 templates in the [OpenCage address formatting repo](https://github.com/OpenCageData/address-formatting) to construct formatted,
-tagged traning examples for every inhabited country in the world. Many types of [normalizations](https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal/blob/master/scripts/geodata/addresses/components.py)
+tagged training examples for every inhabited country in the world. Many types of [normalizations](https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal/blob/master/scripts/geodata/addresses/components.py)
 are performed to make the training data resemble real messy geocoder input as closely as possible.
 
 - **Language classification**: multinomial logistic regression
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ libpostal is written in modern, legible, C99 and uses the following conventions:
 - Confines almost all mallocs to *name*_new and all frees to *name*_destroy
 - Efficient existing implementations for simple things like hashtables
 - Generic containers (via [klib](https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib)) whenever possible
-- Data structrues take advantage of sparsity as much as possible
+- Data structures take advantage of sparsity as much as possible
 - Efficient double-array trie implementation for most string dictionaries
 - Cross-platform as much as possible, particularly for *nix