diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog-1.9.3 b/doc/ChangeLog-1.9.3
index d0debe033c..64f8c770e6 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog-1.9.3
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog-1.9.3
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Tue Jul  5 14:05:43 2011  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/webrick/httpauth/digestauth.rb (_authenticate):
 	  Literal texts in HTTP ABNF is case-insensitive (RFC2616 2.1),
-	  and a ample implementation in RFC2617 also ignores the case
+	  and a sample implementation in RFC2617 also ignores the case
 	  of algorithms. So now this ignores those cases.
 	  [ruby-dev:43965] [Feature #4936]