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 # Fast Elixir
 
-There is a wonderful project in Ruby called [fast-ruby](https://github.com/JuanitoFatas/fast-ruby), from which I got the inspiration for this repo. The idea is to collect various idioms for writing performant code when there is more than one _essentially_ symantically identical way of computing something. There may be slight differences, so please be sure that when you're changing something that it doesn't change the correctness of your program.
+There is a wonderful project in Ruby called [fast-ruby](https://github.com/JuanitoFatas/fast-ruby), from which I got the inspiration for this repo. The idea is to collect various idioms for writing performant code when there is more than one _essentially_ semantically identical way of computing something. There may be slight differences, so please be sure that when you're changing something that it doesn't change the correctness of your program.
 
 Each idiom has a corresponding code example that resides in [code](code).