diff --git a/dat/tribute b/dat/tribute
index 83d9cf8b5..f05076019 100644
--- a/dat/tribute
+++ b/dat/tribute
@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ MANY HAVE, said Death evenly.
   [Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett]
 %e passage
 # pp. 40-41 (this used to have a correction for "an obvious typo" in the last
-#            sentence [before the footnote] which was actually a transciption
+#            sentence [before the footnote] which was actually a transcription
 #            error, with "were" erroneously inserted [causing the sentence to
 #            parse oddly] but not present in the original text; fixed now)
 %passage 4