diff -r 9bc6e157475a Doc/library/string.rst
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst	Sun Nov 25 14:37:43 2012 +0000
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst	Sun Nov 25 22:46:37 2012 -0500
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
       This function does the actual work of formatting.  It is exposed as a
       separate function for cases where you want to pass in a predefined
       dictionary of arguments, rather than unpacking and repacking the
-      dictionary as individual arguments using the ``*args`` and ``**kwds``
+      dictionary as individual arguments using the ``*args`` and ``**kwargs``
       syntax.  :meth:`vformat` does the work of breaking up the format string
       into character data and replacement fields.  It calls the various
       methods described below.