diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/releng-building.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/releng-building.xml
index 8b91fcc0cf..49ec0cc524 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/releng-building.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/releng-building.xml
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ KERNEL="GENERIC64"</programlisting>
 	class="directory">/releng/scripts-snapshot/scripts</filename>
       or <filename
 	class="directory">/releng/scripts-release/scripts</filename>
-      respectfully, to avoid collisions between an
+      respectively, to avoid collisions between an
       <literal>RC</literal> build from a releng branch versus
       a <literal>STABLE</literal> snapshot from the respective stable
       branch.</para>