diff --git a/libraries/libcanberra/README b/libraries/libcanberra/README
index 98aaf1d092..431a9b4043 100644
--- a/libraries/libcanberra/README
+++ b/libraries/libcanberra/README
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ and is designed to be portable.
 
 This requires GConf and sound-theme-freedesktop, and you'll need to make 
 sure GTK_MODULES contains "canberra-gtk-module" - the easiest way to do
-that is to have something like this in your shell inititialization:
+that is to have something like this in your shell initialization:
 
   if [ -z "$GTK_MODULES" ] ; then
       GTK_MODULES="canberra-gtk-module"