diff --git a/man7/charsets.7 b/man7/charsets.7
index 71eeeed50..cb9cd9e34 100644
--- a/man7/charsets.7
+++ b/man7/charsets.7
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ those languages is mostly outside of ASCII.
 For Japanese users this means
 that the 16-bit codes now in common use will take three bytes.
 While there
-are algorithmic conversions from some character sets (esp. ISO-8859-1) to
+are algorithmic conversions from some character sets (especially ISO-8859-1) to
 Unicode, general conversion requires carrying around conversion tables,
 which can be quite large for 16-bit codes.
 .LP