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 <h3>Multiline Function Calls</h3>
 
-When splitting a function call over multiple lines, each parameter must be on a seperate line. Single line inline comments can take up their own line.
+When splitting a function call over multiple lines, each parameter must be on a separate line. Single line inline comments can take up their own line.
 
 Each parameter must take up no more than a single line. Multi-line parameter values must be assigned to a variable and then that variable should be passed to the function call.