diff --git a/sietch.tex b/sietch.tex
index 6aec057..fd27f4a 100644
--- a/sietch.tex
+++ b/sietch.tex
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ in that they both optionally allowed zaddrs. The main difference is that jl777 w
 privacy additions on top of Zcash Protocol, and he rightly saw that forcing people to shield funds immediately
 will just cause them to do it poorly.
 
-On ZEC mainnet, newly mined coinbase funds must be send to a zaddr first, before they can be sent to a transparent
+On ZEC mainnet, newly mined coinbase funds must be sent to a zaddr first, before they can be sent to a transparent
 address. This seems like a good idea at first, it "increases the anonymity set" by forcing everybody to go into
 the shielded pool. But all that glitters is not gold.