diff --git a/03-Gaussians.ipynb b/03-Gaussians.ipynb
index 47b761ae..70df19a7 100644
--- a/03-Gaussians.ipynb
+++ b/03-Gaussians.ipynb
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@
     "\n",
     "<p> Don't be dissuaded by the equation if you haven't seen it before; you will not need to memorize or manipulate it. The computation of this function is stored in `stats.py` with the function `gaussian(x, mean, var, normed=True)`. \n",
     "    \n",
-    "Shorn of the constants, you can see it is a simple exponential:\n",
+    "Short of the constants, you can see it is a simple exponential:\n",
     "    \n",
     "$$f(x)\\propto e^{-x^2}$$\n",
     "\n",