diff --git a/demos/filemon/readme.txt b/demos/filemon/readme.txt
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--- a/demos/filemon/readme.txt
+++ b/demos/filemon/readme.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-a demonstation of events: the file monitor will send events to the client
+a demonstration of events: the file monitor will send events to the client
 (invoke an async callback) whenever a file is changed(as reported by os.stat)