diff --git a/en/08.1.md b/en/08.1.md
index 42bb6639..ed6dbb5d 100644
--- a/en/08.1.md
+++ b/en/08.1.md
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ Some of you may be thinking the following: this server does not do anything mean
 
 	func handleClient(conn net.Conn) {
 		conn.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(2 * time.Minute)) // set 2 minutes timeout
-		request := make([]byte, 128) // set maxium request length to 128KB to prevent flood based attacks
+		request := make([]byte, 128) // set maximum request length to 128KB to prevent flood based attacks
 		defer conn.Close()  // close connection before exit
 		for {
 			read_len, err := conn.Read(request)