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 ### Downloading the Data
 
-The Well datasets range between 6.9GB and 5.1TB of data each, for a total of 15TB for the full collection. Ensure that your system has enough free disk space to accomodate the datasets you wish to download.
+The Well datasets range between 6.9GB and 5.1TB of data each, for a total of 15TB for the full collection. Ensure that your system has enough free disk space to accommodate the datasets you wish to download.
 
 Once `the_well` is installed, you can use the `the-well-download` command to download any dataset of The Well.