diff --git a/akka-docs/scala/actors.rst b/akka-docs/scala/actors.rst
index 548190c6fd..a3ed21b32f 100644
--- a/akka-docs/scala/actors.rst
+++ b/akka-docs/scala/actors.rst
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ futures, because this is likely to be a common combination. Please note that
 all of the above is completely non-blocking and asynchronous: ``ask`` produces
 a :class:`Future`, three of which are composed into a new future using the
 for-comprehension and then ``pipeTo`` installs an ``onComplete``-handler on the
-future to effect the submission of the aggregated :class:`Result` to another
+future to affect the submission of the aggregated :class:`Result` to another
 actor.
 
 Using ``ask`` will send a message to the receiving Actor as with ``tell``, and