diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
index bfb37f77f0..453d213fca 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
@@ -2673,7 +2673,7 @@ host margaux {
 
 	  <para>The kernel does not support enabling <acronym>NFS</acronym>
 	    swap at boot time.  Swap must be enabled by the startup scripts,
-	    by mounting a writeable file system and creating and enabling a
+	    by mounting a writable file system and creating and enabling a
 	    swap file.  To create a swap file of appropriate size, you can do
 	    like this:</para>