diff --git a/lispref/ChangeLog b/lispref/ChangeLog
index 59da0e8a455..25bd07b9979 100644
--- a/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-08-08  Martin Rudalics  <rudalics@gmx.at>
+
+	* modes.texi (Example Major Modes): Fix typo.
+
 2007-08-08  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
 	* intro.texi (nil and t): Do not use `iff' in documentation.
diff --git a/lispref/modes.texi b/lispref/modes.texi
index 95fbe6a292f..3d60756a901 100644
--- a/lispref/modes.texi
+++ b/lispref/modes.texi
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ each calls the following function to set various variables:
 
   In Lisp and most programming languages, we want the paragraph
 commands to treat only blank lines as paragraph separators.  And the
-modes should undestand the Lisp conventions for comments.  The rest of
+modes should understand the Lisp conventions for comments.  The rest of
 @code{lisp-mode-variables} sets this up:
 
 @smallexample