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 #### Gotchas
 
-Haml uses an overly simplistic regular expression to indentify string
+Haml uses an overly simplistic regular expression to identify string
 interpolation rather than a full-blown Ruby parser. This is fast and works for
 most code but you may have errors with code like the following: