diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base
index e94626368..0f858f2a8 100644
--- a/dat/data.base
+++ b/dat/data.base
@@ -4060,7 +4060,7 @@ warg
 	as the crow flies, and maybe twenty as the wolf runs,"
 	answered Gandalf grimly.
 	"Then let us start as soon as it is light tomorrow, if we can,"
-	said Boromir.  "The wolf that one hears is worse then the orc
+	said Boromir.  "The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc
 	that one fears."
 	"True!" said Aragorn, loosening his sword in its sheath.  "But
 	where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls."