@item
Whereas the POSIX specification allows a variable to appear multiple
times in a header, it requires that only the last occurrence be
-meaningful. Thus, multiple ocurrences of @code{GNU.sparse.offset} and
-@code{GNU.sparse.numbytes} are conficting with the POSIX specs.
+meaningful. Thus, multiple occurrences of @code{GNU.sparse.offset} and
+@code{GNU.sparse.numbytes} are conflicting with the POSIX specs.
@item
Attempting to extract such archives using a third-party @command{tar}s