diff --git a/django/utils/functional.py b/django/utils/functional.py
index d50d4ffa05..ee0f09a9ee 100644
--- a/django/utils/functional.py
+++ b/django/utils/functional.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from functools import wraps, update_wrapper
 
 # You can't trivially replace this `functools.partial` because this binds to
 # classes and returns bound instances, whereas functools.partial (on CPython)
-# is a type and it's instances don't bind.
+# is a type and its instances don't bind.
 def curry(_curried_func, *args, **kwargs):
     def _curried(*moreargs, **morekwargs):
         return _curried_func(*(args+moreargs), **dict(kwargs, **morekwargs))