diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Core and builtins
 
 - Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
   "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
-  the one try statement instead of two nested ones.
+  one try statement instead of two nested ones.
 
 - Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
   now encodes backslash correctly.