diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index 1e9348d74d4..088ea4a0def 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -1725,8 +1725,8 @@ sched
 select
 ------
 
-Solaris and derived platforms have a new class :class:`select.devpoll`
-for high performance asyncronous sockets via :file:`/dev/poll`.
+Solaris and derivatives platforms have a new class :class:`select.devpoll`
+for high performance asynchronous sockets via :file:`/dev/poll`.
 
 
 shlex