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 ## Authenticating with the API
 
-Because we now have a set of permissions on the API, we need to authenticate our requests to it if we want to edit any snippets.  We havn't set up any [authentication classes][authentication], so the defaults are currently applied, which are `SessionAuthentication` and `BasicAuthentication`.
+Because we now have a set of permissions on the API, we need to authenticate our requests to it if we want to edit any snippets.  We haven't set up any [authentication classes][authentication], so the defaults are currently applied, which are `SessionAuthentication` and `BasicAuthentication`.
 
 When we interact with the API through the web browser, we can login, and the browser session will then provide the required authentication for the requests.