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 ## Flash State Machine Details
 
 [This document](ipmi_flash.md) describes the details of the state machine
-implemented and how differnet interactions with it will respond.  This also
+implemented and how different interactions with it will respond.  This also
 describes how a host-side tool is expected to talk to it (triggering different
 states and actions).