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     ```
 
   - Never declare a function in a non-function block (if, while, etc). Assign the function to a variable instead. Browsers will allow you to do it, but they all interpret it differently, which is bad news bears.
-  - **Note:** ECMA-262 defines a `block` as a list of statements. A function declartion is not a statement. [Read ECMA-262's note on this issue](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-262.pdf#page=97).
+  - **Note:** ECMA-262 defines a `block` as a list of statements. A function declaration is not a statement. [Read ECMA-262's note on this issue](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-262.pdf#page=97).
 
     ```javascript
     // bad
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@
       var declaredButNotAssigned = true;
     }
 
-    // The interpretor is hoisting the variable
+    // The interpreter is hoisting the variable
     // declaration to the top of the scope.
     // Which means our example could be rewritten as:
     function example() {