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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ New Features
 - New "random" method for converting to and from 360_day calendars (:pull:`8603`).
   By `Pascal Bourgault <https://github.com/aulemahal>`_.
 - Xarray now makes a best attempt not to coerce :py:class:`pandas.api.extensions.ExtensionArray` to a numpy array
-  by supporting 1D `ExtensionArray` objects internally where possible.  Thus, `Dataset`s initialized with a `pd.Catgeorical`, 
+  by supporting 1D `ExtensionArray` objects internally where possible.  Thus, `Dataset`s initialized with a `pd.Catgeorical`,
   for example, will retain the object.  However, one cannot do operations that are not possible on the `ExtensionArray`
   then, such as broadcasting.
   By `Ilan Gold <https://github.com/ilan-gold>`_.