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 - Supports exporting chart as a picture or pdf document.
 - Supports pan and zoom
 - Users can adopt multiple solutions to build up a huge organization chart(please refer to multiple-layers or hybrid layout sections)
-- touch-enabled plugin for mobile divice
+- touch-enabled plugin for mobile device
 
 ## CDN
 Users could find the related CDN support for OrgChart's CSS and JavaScript.
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Users are allowed to drag & drop the nodes of orgchart when option "draggable" i
 
 Furthermore, users can make use of option dropCriteria to inject their custom limitations on drag & drop. As shown below, we don't want an manager employee to be under a engineer under no circumstance.
 
-- [I want a method that can decribe the hierarchy of orgchart](https://rawgit.com/dabeng/OrgChart/master/demo/get-hierarchy.html)
+- [I want a method that can describe the hierarchy of orgchart](https://rawgit.com/dabeng/OrgChart/master/demo/get-hierarchy.html)
 
 That's where getHierarchy() comes in.
 
@@ -221,10 +221,10 @@ var oc = $('#chartContainerId').orgchart(options);
       <td>nodeId</td><td>string</td><td>no</td><td>"id"</td><td>It sets one property of datasource as unique identifier of every orgchart node.</td>
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-      <td>nodeTemplate</td><td>function</td><td>no</td><td></td><td>It's a template generation function used to customize any complex internal structure of node. It recieves only one parameter: "data" stands for json datasoure which will be use to render one node.</td>
+      <td>nodeTemplate</td><td>function</td><td>no</td><td></td><td>It's a template generation function used to customize any complex internal structure of node. It receives only one parameter: "data" stands for json datasoure which will be use to render one node.</td>
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-      <td>createNode</td><td>function</td><td>no</td><td></td><td>It's a callback function used to customize every orgchart node. It recieves two parameters: "$node" stands for jquery object of single node div; "data" stands for datasource of single node.</td>
+      <td>createNode</td><td>function</td><td>no</td><td></td><td>It's a callback function used to customize every orgchart node. It receives two parameters: "$node" stands for jquery object of single node div; "data" stands for datasource of single node.</td>
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       <td>exportButton</td><td>boolean</td><td>no</td><td>false</td><td>It enable the export button for orgchart.</td>
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ var oc = $('#chartContainerId').orgchart(options);
       <td>dropCriteria</td><td>function</td><td>no</td><td></td><td>Users can construct their own criteria to limit the relationships between dragged node and drop zone. Furtherly, this function accept three arguments(draggedNode, dragZone, dropZone) and just only return boolen values.</td>
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-      <td>initCompleted</td><td>function</td><td>no</td><td></td><td>It can often be useful to know when your table has fully been initialised, data loaded and rendered, particularly when using an ajax data source. It recieves one parament: "$chart" stands for jquery object of initialised chart.</td>
+      <td>initCompleted</td><td>function</td><td>no</td><td></td><td>It can often be useful to know when your table has fully been initialised, data loaded and rendered, particularly when using an ajax data source. It receives one parament: "$chart" stands for jquery object of initialised chart.</td>
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