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 ## Organizations
 
-You can add users from other instances to organizations. An instance has a name and an instance, so its full name would look like `orgname@instance.com`. This indicates that the organization data resides on `instance.com`. To prevent syncronization errors, this data is only synchronized one-way to other instances.
+You can add users from other instances to organizations. An organization has a name and an instance, so its full name would look like `orgname@instance.com`. This indicates that the organization data resides on `instance.com`. To prevent syncronization errors, this data is only synchronized one-way to other instances.
 
 ## Collaborators