diff --git a/doc/source/pre/whatsnew/1.3.rst b/doc/source/pre/whatsnew/1.3.rst
index 096c9286eaa6060c589e0ba221beec4b2a8e877e..1a8445082cbfa3d68e74f575726a917dbcb6f4ad 100644
--- a/doc/source/pre/whatsnew/1.3.rst
+++ b/doc/source/pre/whatsnew/1.3.rst
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Sites in finalized builders have consistent ordering
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 In Python 3 the internal ordering of dictionaries is not deterministic. This
 meant that running a Kwant script twice would produce systems with different
-ordering of sites, which lead to non-reproducible calculations. Now, sites
+ordering of sites, which leads to non-reproducible calculations. Now, sites
 in finalized builders are always ordered first by their site family, then by
 their tag.