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 ## Features
 
 - Clean, responsive design. Scales to fit any screen
-- Fully HTML5 complient
+- Fully HTML5 compliant
 - Fully usable without Javascript (although enabling it adds more functionality)
 - Ability to hide email addresses from spambots
 - Syntax highlighting for code blocks
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 ## pelicanconf.py
 
-When developing locally, you may want to set `SITEURL` to somrething like `http://localhost:8000`
+When developing locally, you may want to set `SITEURL` to something like `http://localhost:8000`
 
 This theme supports a number of custom variables: