diff --git a/docs/manual.md b/docs/manual.md
index bba2062..a14c71f 100644
--- a/docs/manual.md
+++ b/docs/manual.md
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ escape the safety of the type system (for example, calling `add` with `string`s,
 may not be what you want).
 
 Since the goal for peon is to not constrain the developer into one specific programming paradigm,
-peon also implements a secondary, different, generic mechanism using the `auto` type. The above code
+it also implements a secondary, different, generic mechanism using the `auto` type. The above code
 could be rewritten to work as follows:
 
 ```