diff --git a/language/namespaces.xml b/language/namespaces.xml
index 69cbcaa3ab..0454b4713c 100644
--- a/language/namespaces.xml
+++ b/language/namespaces.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
but two copies of foo.txt cannot co-exist in the same directory. In
addition, to access the foo.txt file outside of the
/home/greg directory, we must prepend the directory name to the file
- naem using the directory separator to get /home/greg/foo.txt. This
+ name using the directory separator to get /home/greg/foo.txt. This
same principle extends to namespaces in the programming world.