diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 2c18b0ca97ac..6ebdefb6ecfb 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ take it I assign ten programmers to it?"
 completed," he said.
 		-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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-	A manger went to his programmers and told them: "As regards to your
+	A manager went to his programmers and told them: "As regards to your
 work hours: you are going to have to come in at nine in the morning and leave
 at five in the afternoon."  At this, all of them became angry and several
 resigned on the spot.