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Correct minor typos in anti-patterns/language

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@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ There are a couple of pitfalls:
- It's possible to introduce a hard to debug error ``infinite recursion`` when shadowing a variable,
the simplest example being ``rec { b = b; }``.
- combining with overriding logic such as ``overrideAttrs`` function in nixpkgs has a suprising behavour
- combining with overriding logic such as ``overrideAttrs`` function in nixpkgs has a surprising behaviour
of not overriding every reference.
A better way is to use simpler ``let .. in``:
@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ but that's still problematic unless:
a) You specify the commit **at one place only** and reference it else where.
b) And you can control the environment via your souce code,
b) And you can control the environment via your source code,
so that a) applies by somehow setting ``$NIX_PATH`` via nix-shell or NixOS options
See :ref:`pinning-nixpkgs` for a tutorial on how to do better.