Update whatsnew according to suggestion by jreback

Author: roberthdevries

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst

@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ Other enhancements
 - :meth:`groupby.transform` now allows ``func`` to be ``pad``, ``backfill`` and ``cumcount`` (:issue:`31269`).
 - :meth:`~pandas.io.json.read_json` now accepts `nrows` parameter. (:issue:`33916`).
 - :meth `~pandas.io.gbq.read_gbq` now allows to disable progress bar (:issue:`33360`).
-- :meth:`DataFrame.to_excel` can now also generate OpenOffice spreadsheet (.ods) files (:issue:`27222`)
+- :meth:`DataFrame.to_excel` can now also write OpenOffice spreadsheet (.ods) files (:issue:`27222`)
 
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