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 ### Author information
 
-Author information is used to propagate the `creator` field of Twitter summary cards. This is should be an author-specific, not site-wide Twitter handle (the site-wide username be stored as `site.twitter.username`).
+Author information is used to propagate the `creator` field of Twitter summary cards. This should be an author-specific, not site-wide Twitter handle (the site-wide username be stored as `site.twitter.username`).
 
 *TL;DR: In most cases, put `author: [your Twitter handle]` in the document's front matter, for sites with multiple authors. If you need something more complicated, read on.*