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 ## Issue-tracker conventions
 
 We aim to reply to all new issues promptly.  We'll assign one or more
-labels to to indicate we've triaged an issue, but most typeshed issues
+labels to indicate we've triaged an issue, but most typeshed issues
 are relatively simple (stubs for a given module or package are
 missing, incomplete or incorrect) and we won't add noise to the
 tracker by labeling all of them.  Here's what our labels mean.  (We