diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9e1a812..4b38794 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
   are wrapped. This can be configured through the wantobjects method,
   or Tkinter.want_objects.
 
-- The PyBSDDB wrapper around the Sleepycat Berkely DB library has been
+- The PyBSDDB wrapper around the Sleepycat Berkeley DB library has been
   added as the package bsddb. The traditional bsddb module is still
   available in source code, but not built automatically anymore, and
   is now named bsddb185.