diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
index c7b79fef78..085a8febc2 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
@@ -8921,7 +8921,7 @@ Reference: <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/portaudit/74a9541d-5d6c-11d8-80e3-00
 		  </row>
 		  <row>
 		    <entry>7.0-CURRENT after solisten(9) kernel arguments
-		      are modified to accept a backlog paramater.</entry>
+		      are modified to accept a backlog parameter.</entry>
 		    <entry>700004</entry>
 		  </row>
 		  <row>