earler -> earlier

diff --git a/doc/build/tutorial/metadata.rst b/doc/build/tutorial/metadata.rst
index 365e996857bf9c1f8467822390edff28aea876ce..576dd544c1ed53ac10a641ab8a954f75bc1020a1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/build/tutorial/metadata.rst
+++ b/doc/build/tutorial/metadata.rst
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ the reflection process does it in reverse.
 
 As an example of reflection, we will create a new :class:`_schema.Table`
 object which represents the ``some_table`` object we created manually in
-the earler sections of this document.  There are again some varieties of
+the earlier sections of this document.  There are again some varieties of
 how this is performed, however the most basic is to construct a
 :class:`_schema.Table` object, given the name of the table and a
 :class:`_schema.MetaData` collection to which it will belong, then