diff --git a/src/port/exec.c b/src/port/exec.c
index 1687c9c9729..c79e8ba35e0 100644
--- a/src/port/exec.c
+++ b/src/port/exec.c
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ pipe_read_line(char *cmd, char *line, int maxsize)
 /*
  * pclose() plus useful error reporting
  * Is this necessary?  bjm 2004-05-11
- * Originaally this was stated to be here because pipe.c had backend linkage.
+ * Originally this was stated to be here because pipe.c had backend linkage.
  * Perhaps that's no longer so now we have got rid of pipe.c amd 2012-03-28
  */
 int