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 ## Environment variables
 
-To seperate the development and production *- aka build -* stages, all gulp tasks run with a node environment variable named either `development` or `production`.
+To separate the development and production *- aka build -* stages, all gulp tasks run with a node environment variable named either `development` or `production`.
 
 You can access the environment variable inside the theme files with `getenv "NODE_ENV"`. See the following example for a conditional statement: