diff --git a/contrib/elinks.fortune b/contrib/elinks.fortune
index a67dba3d..13eaa71e 100644
--- a/contrib/elinks.fortune
+++ b/contrib/elinks.fortune
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ fonseca > Not all is in the elinks-cvs mailbox.
 arcatan > I'm going to quote that when you have hacked 10 hours
 fonseca > And I'm going to quote that when I've done it in 3 hours. ;)
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-Scrool > pasky: HTML renderer doesn't work well with double-with characters. I
+Scrool > pasky: HTML renderer doesn't work well with double-width characters. I
          want to test it in source code view. But after switching into Source
          code view some characters from HTML view stays there.
  pasky > ctrl-l