diff --git a/bin/ed/ed.1 b/bin/ed/ed.1
index 03ed11b1f31b..f9fc102b0aea 100644
--- a/bin/ed/ed.1
+++ b/bin/ed/ed.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: ed.1,v 1.23 2002/10/02 15:59:51 wiz Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: ed.1,v 1.24 2003/03/29 18:09:03 perry Exp $
 .\"
 .TH ED 1 "21 May 1993"
 .SH NAME
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ A typical command might look like:
 ,s/\fIold\fR/\fInew\fR/g
 .RE
 .sp
-which replaces all occurences of the string
+which replaces all occurrences of the string
 .I old
 with
 .IR new .