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@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ Why is there no goto?
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 In the 1970s people realized that unrestricted goto could lead
-to messy "sphagetti" code that was hard to understand and revise.
+to messy "spaghetti" code that was hard to understand and revise.
 In a high-level language, it is also unneeded as long as there
 are ways to branch (in Python, with ``if`` statements and ``or``,
 ``and``, and ``if-else`` expressions) and loop (with ``while``