diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
index d9bdb21..1022373 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst
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@@ -1638,7 +1638,7 @@
 
 Despite the cycle collector, it's still a good idea to define an explicit
 ``close()`` method on objects to be called whenever you're done with them.  The
-``close()`` method can then remove attributes that refer to subobjecs.  Don't
+``close()`` method can then remove attributes that refer to subobjects.  Don't
 call :meth:`__del__` directly -- :meth:`__del__` should call ``close()`` and
 ``close()`` should make sure that it can be called more than once for the same
 object.