diff --git a/doc/surround.txt b/doc/surround.txt
index 4f944a1..6c95984 100644
--- a/doc/surround.txt
+++ b/doc/surround.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ mode, each line is surrounded.
 
 A "gS" in visual mode, known as *vgS* , behaves similarly.  In linewise visual
 mode, the automatic indenting is suppressed.  In blockwise visual mode, this
-enables surrounding past the end of the like with 'virtualedit' set (there
+enables surrounding past the end of the line with 'virtualedit' set (there
 seems to be no way in Vim Script to differentiate between a jagged end of line
 selection and a virtual block selected past the end of the line, so two maps
 were needed).