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 ![Use case gif demo](README-use-case.gif)
 
-It was have preferred not to re-use the term 'split', because in jupyterlab _split_ already means, well, to split a cell into 2 cells...
+It was preferred not to re-use the term 'split', because in jupyterlab _split_ already means, well, to split a cell into 2 cells...
 
 ## Requirements