diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
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+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Changes from Ant 1.9.11 TO Ant 1.9.12
 Fixed bugs:
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- * Delay the class initialization of the test classes untill they are
+ * Delay the class initialization of the test classes until they are
    passed to JUnit. This way we can avoid that failing static initializers
    from non-test classes are reported as error when the 'skipNonTests' option
    is 'true'.