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diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 09e9d5a853..11ae3aa657 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
                     For example, you could address this by getting the
                     maintainer of the include file to add a variable or
                     variables to make it easy to override the parts needing
-                    overwritten.
+                    to be overridden.
                 </para>
             </section>