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@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ This produces the following output:
 
 ![table](https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/raw/master/imgs/table.png)
 
-Note that console markup is rendered in the same was as `print()` and `log()`. In fact, anything that is renderable by Rich may be included in the headers / rows (even other tables).
+Note that console markup is rendered in the same way as `print()` and `log()`. In fact, anything that is renderable by Rich may be included in the headers / rows (even other tables).
 
 The `Table` class is smart enough to resize columns to fit the available width of the terminal, wrapping text as required. Here's the same example, with the terminal made smaller than the table above: