--- a/doc/interpreter/stmt.txi	Wed Oct 10 17:51:00 2007 +0000
+++ b/doc/interpreter/stmt.txi	Wed Oct 10 18:03:02 2007 +0000
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@
 @noindent
 In this case the variable @code{i} takes on the value of the columns of
 the matrix or cell matrix. So the first loop iterates twice, producing
-two column vectors @code{[1;2]}, follwed by @code{[3;4]}, and likewise
+two column vectors @code{[1;2]}, followed by @code{[3;4]}, and likewise
 for the loop over the cell array. This can be extended to loops over
 multidimensional arrays. For example