Terminology fix: exceptions are raised, except in generator.throw().
diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index 68269b9..cabb6f3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
the format string (integers for positional arguments, and strings for
named arguments), and a reference to the *args* and *kwargs* that was
passed to vformat. The set of unused args can be calculated from these
- parameters. :meth:`check_unused_args` is assumed to throw an exception if
+ parameters. :meth:`check_unused_args` is assumed to raise an exception if
the check fails.
.. method:: format_field(value, format_spec)