diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@ shadow-4.0.1 => shadow-4.0.2						 17-02-2002
 
 - resolve many fuzzy translations also all this which may cause problems on
   displaying long uid/gid,
-- allow use "$" on ending in created by useradd usermname accounts for allow
+- allow use "$" on ending in created by useradd username accounts for allow
   create machine accounts for samba (thanks to Jerome Borsboom
   <borsboom@tch.fgg.eur.nl> for point this problem in 4.0.1),
 - fix small but ugly bug in configure.in in libpam_mics library detection.