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 ### Embedded vs. Transport Nodes
 
-Wonderdog provides two different ways of connnecting to ElasticSearch
+Wonderdog provides two different ways of connecting to ElasticSearch
 from within a Hadoop task.
 
 * By default, each map task will spin up a