diff --git a/reference/ev/ev.xml b/reference/ev/ev.xml
index 94abe430cb..f5725b10bc 100644
--- a/reference/ev/ev.xml
+++ b/reference/ev/ev.xml
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@
       </term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        Means that even loop will look for new events(waiting if necessary)
+        Means that event loop will look for new events (waiting if necessary)
         and will handle those and any already outstanding ones. It will block
         the process until at least one new event arrives (which could be an
         event internal to libev itself, so there is no guarantee that a