diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 2c520010644..74505138028 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     NativeAzureFileSystem#NativeAzureFsInputStream#close().
     (Chen He via cnauroth)
 
+    HADOOP-10946. Fix a bunch of typos in log messages (Ray Chiang via aw)
+
 Release 2.6.0 - 2014-11-18
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/NativeAzureFileSystem.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/NativeAzureFileSystem.java
index 577711f4ce0..dae957ee30e 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/NativeAzureFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/NativeAzureFileSystem.java
@@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ public boolean rename(Path src, Path dst) throws IOException {
       if (dstKey.startsWith(srcKey + PATH_DELIMITER)) {
 
         if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-          LOG.debug("Renaming directory to a itself is disallowed. src=" + src
+          LOG.debug("Renaming directory to itself is disallowed. src=" + src
               + " dest=" + dst);
         }
         return false;