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@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ Patches are welcome as [pull requests on GitHub][2].  Please include a
 Signed-off-by tag in the commit message (you can do this by passing `--signoff`
 parameter to Git). 
 
-When creating the commit on GitHub on using some other tool which does not have
-direct support for this, it is same as adding 
-`Signed-off-by: Your name <email@examle.com>`
-as last line of the commit message.
+When creating the commit on GitHub or using some other tool which does not have
+direct support for this, it is the same as adding 
+`Signed-off-by: Your name <email@example.com>`
+as the last line of the commit message.
 
 Note that by submitting patches with the Signed-off-by tag, you are giving
 permission to license the patch as GPLv2-or-later.  See [the DCO file][3] for