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 # learn
 
-> Your guide to making your first open source contibution.
+> Your guide to making your first open source contribution.
 
 Open source can feel like a closed club. It isn't — but the door is hard to find. This repo is a curated, community-maintained set of resources that help developpers go from "I've never merged a PR" to "I just shipped my first contribution."
 
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 Before you click "Create pull request," walk through this checklist. It catches the things that turn a clean merge into three rounds of review.
 
-## Pre-flight: before comitting
+## Pre-flight: before committing
 
 ### The change itself