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@@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ It's actually extremely trivial: we can just use traditional capability
 URLs or bearcaps anywhere we would put a normal link.
 
 Let's start with a simple capability URL example.
-(We're intentionally pairing down this example; signatures are
+(We're intentionally paring down this example; signatures are
 not shown.)
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC javascript