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diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod
index 026f4327a6..af79344402 100644
--- a/pod/perlunicode.pod
+++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ not think that LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH is a letter (unless you happen
to speak Icelandic), but Unicode does.
As discussed elsewhere, Perl tries to stand one leg (two legs, as
-camels are quadrupeds?) in two worlds: the old world of byte and the new
+camels are quadrupeds?) in two worlds: the old world of bytes and the new
world of characters, upgrading from bytes to characters when necessary.
If your legacy code is not explicitly using Unicode, no automatic
switchover to characters should happen, and characters shouldn't get