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 ## Architecture choice
 
 The image architecture defaults to the building system's architecture. To modify
-it, you need to adjust en environment variable when running bake command.
+it, you need to adjust an environment variable when running bake command.
 
 ```sh
 export TARGETARCH=linux/arm64