diff --git a/src/spell.c b/src/spell.c
index 32ce2b4..9850777 100644
--- a/src/spell.c
+++ b/src/spell.c
@@ -2039,7 +2039,7 @@
 
     /*
      * Start looking for bad word at the start of the line, because we can't
-     * start halfway a word, we don't know where the it starts or ends.
+     * start halfway a word, we don't know where it starts or ends.
      *
      * When searching backwards, we continue in the line to find the last
      * bad word (in the cursor line: before the cursor).