diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst b/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
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--- a/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
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@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ The command used: ::
 
 There are 24 issuers, each issuing 64 IOs concurrently. ``--verify=sha512``
 makes ``fio`` generate and read back the content each time which makes
-execution locality matter between the issuer and ``kcryptd``. The followings
+execution locality matter between the issuer and ``kcryptd``. The following
 are the read bandwidths and CPU utilizations depending on different affinity
 scope settings on ``kcryptd`` measured over five runs. Bandwidths are in
 MiBps, and CPU util in percents.