diff --git a/coffeescript.html.markdown b/coffeescript.html.markdown
index 6af692b9..4c080bc6 100644
--- a/coffeescript.html.markdown
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ See also [the CoffeeScript website](http://coffeescript.org/), which has a compl
 Block comments are like these, and they translate directly to '/ *'s and '* /'s
 for the resulting JavaScript code.
 
-You should understand most of JavaScript semantices
+You should understand most of JavaScript semantics
 before continuing.
 ###