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 ## Register accessors
 
-Accessors (in pandas) are objects attached to a attribute on the Pandas DataFrame/Series
+Accessors (in pandas) are objects attached to an attribute on the Pandas DataFrame/Series
 that provide extra, specific functionality. For example, `pandas.DataFrame.plot` is an
 accessor that provides plotting functionality.