diff --git a/ssss.txt b/ssss.txt
index 4a30f89..0e3a0f1 100644
--- a/ssss.txt
+++ b/ssss.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This document standardizes the requirements for a conforming implementation of
 shikhin and all such implementations are required to comply with all tenets.
 Some decisions were made in the standardization process to respect existing
 practice and behavior in historical implementations.  It is the opinion of this
-commitee that existing uses of shikhin is important, however that existing
+commitee that existing uses of shikhin are important, however that existing
 implementations are not important and may need to change to comply.
 
 An implementation is any system subject to his specification.