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 Two things might seem alarming when running the tests:
 
   1. Warnings emitted by cover
-  2. En exception printed by SASL
+  2. An exception printed by SASL
 
 Both are expected due to the way Erlang currently prints errors. The
 important line you should look for is `All XX tests passed`, if that