diff --git a/src/bin/bind10/bind10_messages.mes b/src/bin/bind10/bind10_messages.mes
index dd36ef96e3..2f48325498 100644
--- a/src/bin/bind10/bind10_messages.mes
+++ b/src/bin/bind10/bind10_messages.mes
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ unexpectedly, but the boss then found that the component had been removed
 from its local configuration of components to run.  This is an unusal
 situation but can happen if the administrator removes the component from
 the configuration after the component's crash and before the restart time.
-The boss module simply skipped restarting that module, and the whole syste
+The boss module simply skipped restarting that module, and the whole system
 went back to the expected state (except that the crash itself is likely
 to be a bug).