diff --git a/Lib/socketserver.py b/Lib/socketserver.py
index 905df9319e2fa8..1ad028fa4d08ca 100644
--- a/Lib/socketserver.py
+++ b/Lib/socketserver.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 The classes in this module favor the server type that is simplest to
 write: a synchronous TCP/IP server.  This is bad class design, but
-save some typing.  (There's also the issue that a deep class hierarchy
+saves some typing.  (There's also the issue that a deep class hierarchy
 slows down method lookups.)
 
 There are five classes in an inheritance diagram, four of which represent