diff --git a/Lib/xml/sax/xmlreader.py b/Lib/xml/sax/xmlreader.py
index 8bc33d8..84a8bbb 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/sax/xmlreader.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/sax/xmlreader.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     def setLocale(self, locale):
         """Allow an application to set the locale for errors and warnings. 
    
-        SAX parsers are not required to provide localisation for errors
+        SAX parsers are not required to provide localization for errors
         and warnings; if they cannot support the requested locale,
         however, they must throw a SAX exception. Applications may
         request a locale change in the middle of a parse."""