diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index fd9aeda..44bf8ea 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ We will try to support the following Ubuntu versions at least:
 
 This is a good option if you are on a Linux host, but the <<getting-started-natively,native build>> failed due to your weird host distribution.
 
-Before anything, you must get ride of any host build files on `out/` if you have any. A simple way to do this it to:
+Before anything, you must get rid of any host build files on `out/` if you have any. A simple way to do this it to:
 
 ....
 mv out out.host