diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index e550b8a..2da7b20 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Besides moves, the following commands are available:
 
 Primary testing was done on nawk and busybox awk, but the game should work
 correctly on mawk, gawk and any other POSIX-compliant AWK implementation.
-Partcularly, additional tweaking had been done to make sure the game works
+Particularly, additional tweaking had been done to make sure the game works
 correctly with gawk --posix and mawk -W posix flags.
 
 == Credits ==