fix a typo

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@44304 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 59251a40cf..18627e8b13 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ String
 * REXML::Parsers::SAX2Parser
   * Fixes wrong number of arguments of entitydecl event. Document of the event
     says "an array of the entity declaration" but implementation passes two
-    or more arguments. It is an implementation bug but it breaks backword
+    or more arguments. It is an implementation bug but it breaks backward
     compatibility.
 
 * REXML::Parsers::StreamParser