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@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ read_csv(simple_csv)
 ```
 
 In this very small case, you can easily see the missing value `.`.
-But what happens if you have thousands of rows with only a few missing values represented by `.`s speckled among them?
+But what happens if you have thousands of rows with only a few missing values represented by `.`s sprinkled among them?
 One approach is to tell readr that `x` is a numeric column, and then see where it fails.
 You can do that with the `col_types` argument, which takes a named list where the names match the column names in the CSV file: