diff --git a/pep-0008.txt b/pep-0008.txt
index bf6df05cb..6fa45db8e 100644
--- a/pep-0008.txt
+++ b/pep-0008.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Code lay-out
 
   Encodings (PEP 263)
 
-    Code in the core Python distribution should aways use the ASCII or
+    Code in the core Python distribution should always use the ASCII or
     Latin-1 encoding (a.k.a. ISO-8859-1).  For Python 3.0 and beyond,
     UTF-8 is preferred over Latin-1, see PEP 3120.