diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 83913bf88b8..d8f5f68ff99 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ and ACL entries.
 ** Changes to the Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions in Emacs 24.4
 
 *** The package descriptor and name of global variables, constants,
-and functions should be separated by two hypens if the symbol is not
+and functions should be separated by two hyphens if the symbol is not
 meant to be used by other packages.