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@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Lightning disentangles PyTorch code to decouple the science from the engineering
 Lightning is designed with these principles in mind:
 
 Principle 1: Enable maximal flexibility.
-Principle 2: Abstract away unecessary boilerplate, but make it accessible when needed.
+Principle 2: Abstract away unnecessary boilerplate, but make it accessible when needed.
 Principle 3: Systems should be self-contained (ie: optimizers, computation code, etc).
 Principle 4: Deep learning code should be organized into 4 distinct categories.