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 Note: if you want to set conda-forge as your default conda channel, you can use the following install workflow.
-We recommmend this approach. Once you have run conda config, you can install earthpy without specifying a channel.
+We recommend this approach. Once you have run conda config, you can install earthpy without specifying a channel.
 
 ```bash
 $ conda config --add channels conda-forge
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 # Acknowledgements
 
-There have been many [contributors to earthpy](https://github.com/earthlab/earthpy/graphs/contributors) that we are thankful for. We are also thankful for the feedback that we recieved through the software review implemented by pyOpenSci. Specifically we thank Luiz Irber who has served as an editor for this review and the two reviewers: Sean Gillies and Rohit Goswami.
+There have been many [contributors to earthpy](https://github.com/earthlab/earthpy/graphs/contributors) that we are thankful for. We are also thankful for the feedback that we received through the software review implemented by pyOpenSci. Specifically we thank Luiz Irber who has served as an editor for this review and the two reviewers: Sean Gillies and Rohit Goswami.
 
 # References