diff --git a/docs/process/coding-style.rst b/docs/process/coding-style.rst
index 94fd85e..be13b14 100644
--- a/docs/process/coding-style.rst
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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
 parentheses.
 
 Control statements (``if``, ``for``, ``switch``, ``while``, etc) must be
-separated from the following open paranthesis by a single space. The previous
+separated from the following open parenthesis by a single space. The previous
 example illustrates this for an ``if`` statement.
 
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