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 title: Handles
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-sss A handle is used to access the attributes of a Liquid object. By default, the handle is the object's title in lowercase with any spaces and special characters replaced by hyphens (-).
+A handle is used to access the attributes of a Liquid object. By default, the handle is the object's title in lowercase with any spaces and special characters replaced by hyphens (-).
 
 For example, a page with the title "About Us" can be accessed in Liquid via its handle `about-us` as shown below:
 
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 {% include home-banner.html %}
 
-Liquid is an open-source template language created by [Shopify](https://www.shopify.com) and written in Ruby. It is the backbone of Shopify themes and is used to load dynamic content on storefronts. Liquid is also used in static site genrators like [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com).
+Liquid is an open-source template language created by [Shopify](https://www.shopify.com) and written in Ruby. It is the backbone of Shopify themes and is used to load dynamic content on storefronts. Liquid is also used in static site generators like [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com).
 
 Liquid has been in production use since June 2006 and is now used by many other hosted web applications.