diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ dev
 **Bugfixes**
 
 - Fixed issue where Requests would raise ``ConnectionError`` instead of
-  ``SSLError`` when encoutering SSL problems when using urllib3 v1.22.
+  ``SSLError`` when encountering SSL problems when using urllib3 v1.22.
 
 2.18.2 (2017-07-25)
 +++++++++++++++++++