diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index ebc6db44820..6870da171cb 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
 
   (Contributed by Fredrik Johansson and Victor Stinner; :issue:`3439`.)
 
-* The :keyword:`import` statement will no longer try a absolute import
+* The :keyword:`import` statement will no longer try an absolute import
   if a relative import (e.g. ``from .os import sep``) fails.  This
   fixes a bug, but could possibly break certain :keyword:`import`
   statements that were only working by accident.  (Fixed by Meador Inge;