diff --git a/support/genhomedircon b/support/genhomedircon
index 7c4c44cd6..01ef91d9b 100644
--- a/support/genhomedircon
+++ b/support/genhomedircon
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def oldgenhomedircon(filecontextdir, filecontext):
 
         #the idea is that we need to find all of the home_root_t directories we do this by just accepting
         #any default home directory defined by either /etc/libuser.conf or /etc/default/useradd
-        #we then get the potential home directory roots from /etc/passwd or nis or whereever and look at
+        #we then get the potential home directory roots from /etc/passwd or nis or wherever and look at
         #the defined homedir for all users with UID > STARTING_UID.  This list of possible root homedirs
         #is then checked to see if it has an explicite context defined in the file_contexts.  Explicit
         #is any regex that would match it which does not end with .*$ or .+$ since those are general