diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 280fb51..19b9d13 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
   distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.
 
 - Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and
-  non buffer-api supporting objects as input.  That behavior if for 3.x only.
+  non buffer-api supporting objects as input.  That behavior is for 3.x only.
 
 C-API
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