diff --git a/requests/compat.py b/requests/compat.py
index be5a1ed6..c07726ee 100644
--- a/requests/compat.py
+++ b/requests/compat.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ is_solaris = ('solar==' in str(sys.platform).lower())   # Complete guess.
 try:
     import simplejson as json
 except (ImportError, SyntaxError):
-    # simplejson does not support Python 3.2, it thows a SyntaxError
+    # simplejson does not support Python 3.2, it throws a SyntaxError
     # because of u'...' Unicode literals.
     import json