diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Many bug-fixes and a few small features:
 - Fixed off-by-one bug in job serial generation
 - ``gnt-node volumes``: Fix instance names
 - Fixed aliases in bash completion
-- Fixed a bug in reopening log files after beeing sent a SIGHUP
+- Fixed a bug in reopening log files after being sent a SIGHUP
 - Added a flag to burnin to allow specifying VCPU count
 - Bugfixes to non-root Ganeti configuration