diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
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--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ back to the LL(1) parser using a command line switch (``-X
 oldparser``) or an environment variable (``PYTHONOLDPARSER=1``).
 
 See :pep:`617` for more details.  (Contributed by Guido van Rossum,
-Pablo Galindo and Lysandros Nikolau in :issue:`40334`.)
+Pablo Galindo and Lysandros Nikolaou in :issue:`40334`.)
 
 
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