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 ### Pull Requests
 
-Please keep in mind that pull requests should be small (i.e. one feature per request), stick to existing coding conventions and documentation should be updated if required. It's encouraged to make commits of logical units and check for unnecessary whitespaces before commiting (try `git diff --check`). Please reference issue numbers in your commit messages where appropriate.
+Please keep in mind that pull requests should be small (i.e. one feature per request), stick to existing coding conventions and documentation should be updated if required. It's encouraged to make commits of logical units and check for unnecessary whitespace before committing (try `git diff --check`). Please reference issue numbers in your commit messages where appropriate.
 
 ### Coding Standards
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ With this command you can specify a file or folder to limit which files it will
 
 Pico accepts the problems of having redundant documentation on different places (concretely Pico's inline user docs, the `README.md` and the website) for the sake of a better user experience. When updating the docs, please make sure the keep them in sync.
 
-If you update the [`README.md`](https://github.com/picocms/Pico/blob/master/README.md) or [`content-sample/index.md`](https://github.com/picocms/Pico/blob/master/content-sample/index.md), please make sure to update the corresponding files in the [`_docs`](https://github.com/picocms/Pico/tree/gh-pages/_docs/) folder of the `gh-pages` branch (i.e. [Pico's website](http://picocms.org/docs.html)) and vice verca. Unfortunately this involves three (!) different markdown parsers. If you're experiencing problems, use Pico's [`erusev/parsedown-extra`](https://github.com/erusev/parsedown-extra) as a reference. You can try to make the contents compatible to [Redcarpet](https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet) by yourself, otherwise please address the issues in your pull request message and we'll take care of it.
+If you update the [`README.md`](https://github.com/picocms/Pico/blob/master/README.md) or [`content-sample/index.md`](https://github.com/picocms/Pico/blob/master/content-sample/index.md), please make sure to update the corresponding files in the [`_docs`](https://github.com/picocms/Pico/tree/gh-pages/_docs/) folder of the `gh-pages` branch (i.e. [Pico's website](http://picocms.org/docs.html)) and vice versa. Unfortunately this involves three (!) different markdown parsers. If you're experiencing problems, use Pico's [`erusev/parsedown-extra`](https://github.com/erusev/parsedown-extra) as a reference. You can try to make the contents compatible to [Redcarpet](https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet) by yourself, otherwise please address the issues in your pull request message and we'll take care of it.
 
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