diff --git a/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
index f6579cac0e36..8e64639d3533 100644
--- a/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
+++ b/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: newsyslog.8,v 1.24 2002/09/30 10:41:54 grant Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: newsyslog.8,v 1.25 2002/10/02 15:20:10 wiz Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org>
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ or
 .Pa /etc/group .
 For backward compatibility,
 .Dq \&\.
-is useable in lieu of
+is usable in lieu of
 .Dq \&: ,
 however use of this feature is discouraged.
 .It Ar mode