Typo:  "now" --> "the new"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3fa0f0a..19b3651 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -331,10 +331,10 @@
 
 Tools/Demos
 
-- IDLE supports now encoding declarations (PEP 263); it can also deal
-  with legacy 8-bit files if they use the locale's encoding. It allows
-  non-ASCII strings in the interactive shell and executes them in the
-  locale's encoding.
+- IDLE supports the new encoding declarations (PEP 263); it can also
+  deal with legacy 8-bit files if they use the locale's encoding. It
+  allows non-ASCII strings in the interactive shell and executes them
+  in the locale's encoding.
 
 - freeze.py now produces binaries which can import shared modules,
   unlike before when this failed due to missing symbol exports in