diff --git a/development/FORMAT b/development/FORMAT
index d621168fd0..f2ba68e334 100644
--- a/development/FORMAT
+++ b/development/FORMAT
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The good example would be 2010-01-10 entry.
 2010-11-07 Uwe Stöhr <uwestoehr@web.de>
 	* Format incremented to 407: support for vertical offset of
 	  multirow cells
-	  new tag "mroffset" for multirow chells with an offset
+	  new tag "mroffset" for multirow cells with an offset
 
 2010-11-06 Richard Heck <rgheck@comcast.net> and
 	  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes@lyx.org>