From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 07:42:46 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: fix typo (closes #26378)
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fix typo (closes #26378)
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
index cc45e6e489d7..9fe212861668 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ that limit.
 Repetitions such as ``*`` are :dfn:`greedy`; when repeating a RE, the matching
 engine will try to repeat it as many times as possible. If later portions of the
 pattern don't match, the matching engine will then back up and try again with
-few repetitions.
+fewer repetitions.
 
 A step-by-step example will make this more obvious.  Let's consider the
 expression ``a[bcd]*b``.  This matches the letter ``'a'``, zero or more letters