diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real
index 9a5401fc5c12..0a496b434e77 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ see Sir Lancelot riding hard to catch up with him.
 	"What is amiss, my friend?" asked the king.
 	"My lord," gasped Lancelot, "you have given me the wrong key!"
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-	"Before we get married," said the young woman to her fiancee,
+	"Before we get married," said the young woman to her fiance,
 "I want to confess some affairs that I've had in the past."
 	"But you told me all about those a few weeks ago," her young man
 replied.