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 ## The Count Method
 
-Counts the number of occurences of a given character or substring in the string it is applied to. Can be optionally provided start and end index.
+Counts the number of occurrences of a given character or substring in the string it is applied to. Can be optionally provided start and end index.
 
 ```python
 >>> sentence = 'one sheep two sheep three sheep four'