diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 78f00ff13..9b486d6bc 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
   where it is used, or fix the depends attribute of the target in question to
   depend on the target which defines the reference/datatype.
   As a result of testing on real live build scripts, a fall-back mechanism
-  was put it place to allow references taht are out-of-band to be resolved. If
+  was put it place to allow references that are out-of-band to be resolved. If
   this happens a big warning message is logged. This fall-back mechanism will
   be removed in Ant 1.8.0.