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 Our areas of active development include:
 * the SuperSQL query language,
-* the type-based query compiler annd optimizer,
+* the type-based query compiler and optimizer,
 * fast, vectorized ingest of common file formats,
 * a complete vectorized runtme, and
 * a data lake based on super-structured data.