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 ## Generating an image
 
 PoreSpy offers several ways to generate artificial images, for quick
-testing and developmnet of work flows, instead of dealing with
+testing and development of work flows, instead of dealing with
 reading/writing/storing of large tomograms.
 
 ``` python