diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 2835dae3b6a..45eadf19152 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language.
 Optimizations
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-* Type objects now have a cache of methods that can reduc
+* Type objects now have a cache of methods that can reduce
   the amount of work required to find the correct method implementation
   for a particular class; once cached, the interpreter doesn't need to
   traverse base classes to figure out the right method to call.