diff --git a/docs/internals/committers.txt b/docs/internals/committers.txt
index f6fbbda291..002c7f5ab8 100644
--- a/docs/internals/committers.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/committers.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Journal-World`_ of Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
 `Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_
     Jacob is a partner at `Revolution Systems`_ which provides support services
     around Django and related open source technologies. A good deal of Jacob's
-    work time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previous worked at World
+    work time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previously worked at World
     Online, where Django was invented, where he was the lead developer of
     Ellington, a commercial web publishing platform for media companies.