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 <p>If you prefer you can use regular expressions to define your routing rules.  Any valid regular expression is allowed, as are back-references.</p>
 
-<p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong>&nbsp; If you use back-references you must use the dollar syntax rather then the double backslash syntax.</p>
+<p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong>&nbsp; If you use back-references you must use the dollar syntax rather than the double backslash syntax.</p>
 
 <p>A typical RegEx route might look something like this:</p>