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 # Simple Features for R
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 ### lwgeom
 
-Functions and methods that require `liblwgeom`, including ellipsoidal (not spherical or Eucledian) metrics (area, distances), are provide by and used from [lwgeom](https://github.com/r-spatial/lwgeom), which is also on [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/package=lwgeom).
+Functions and methods that require `liblwgeom`, including ellipsoidal (not spherical or Euclidean) metrics (area, distances), are provide by and used from [lwgeom](https://github.com/r-spatial/lwgeom), which is also on [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/package=lwgeom).
 
 ## Contributing
 
 * Contributions of all sorts are most welcome, issues and pull requests are the preferred ways of sharing them.
-* When contributing pull requests, please adhere to the package style (in package code use `=` rather than `<-`; don't change indentation; tab stops of 4 spaces are preferred)
-* This project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
+* When contributing pull requests, please adhere to the package style (in package code use `=` rather than `<-`; don't change indentation; tab stops of 4 spaces are preferred).
+* This project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
 
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