diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py b/Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py
index 4fba875..c7033f4 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # minidom DOM and can't be used with other DOM implementations.  This
 # is due, in part, to a lack of appropriate methods in the DOM (there is
 # no way to create Entity and Notation nodes via the DOM Level 2
-# interface), and for performance.  The later is the cause of some fairly
+# interface), and for performance.  The latter is the cause of some fairly
 # cryptic code.
 #
 # Performance hacks: