diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6530f5a4..eaaf7b16 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 	<name>Spring Hateoas</name>
 	<url>http://github.com/SpringSource/spring-hateoas</url>
 	<description>
-		Library to support implementing represnetaitons for 
+		Library to support implementing representations for
 		hyper-text driven REST web services.
 	</description>