diff --git a/docs/newforms.txt b/docs/newforms.txt
index ff3c9931b6ae7..58571bd02e3db 100644
--- a/docs/newforms.txt
+++ b/docs/newforms.txt
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ required. In this example, the data dictionary doesn't include a value for the
     {'nick_name': u'', 'first_name': u'John', 'last_name': u'Lennon'}
 
 In this above example, the ``clean_data`` value for ``nick_name`` is set to an
-empty string, because ``nick_name`` is ``CharField``, and ``CharField``s treat
+empty string, because ``nick_name`` is ``CharField``, and ``CharField``\s treat
 empty values as an empty string. Each field type knows what its "blank" value
 is -- e.g., for ``DateField``, it's ``None`` instead of the empty string.