diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index d766055..ada994e 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ User visible changes for btcwallet
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 Changes in 0.2.1 (Thu Jan 10 2014)
-  - Fix a mutex isssue which caused btcwallet to lockup on all
+  - Fix a mutex issue which caused btcwallet to lockup on all
     RPC requests needing to read or write an account
 
 Changes in 0.2.0 (Thu Jan 09 2014)