diff --git a/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb b/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb
index ced3d0183f..a0d2a13557 100644
--- a/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb
+++ b/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ module XMLRPC # :nodoc:
         }
       else
         # reuse the HTTP object for each call => connection alive is possible
-        # we must start connection explicitely first time so that http.request
+        # we must start connection explicitly first time so that http.request
         # does not assume that we don't want keepalive
         @http.start if not @http.started?