diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 618cbf8e07..2fc06487c3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Mar 21 07:34:00 2013  Zachary Scott  <zachary@zacharyscott.net>
+
+	* ext/date/date_core.c: Typo in Date::MONTHNAMES by Matt Gauger
+	  [GH fixes #261]
+
 Wed Mar 20 22:53:14 2013  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/mkmf.rb (find_library): fix to format message.
diff --git a/ext/date/date_core.c b/ext/date/date_core.c
index 51fb5c1d83..914b81eeaa 100644
--- a/ext/date/date_core.c
+++ b/ext/date/date_core.c
@@ -9315,7 +9315,7 @@ Init_date_core(void)
 
     rb_include_module(cDate, rb_mComparable);
 
-    /* An array of stirng of full month name in English.  The first
+    /* An array of string of full month name in English.  The first
      * element is nil.
      */
     rb_define_const(cDate, "MONTHNAMES", mk_ary_of_str(13, monthnames));