diff --git a/README b/README
index 74c3a65..4040e5e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 
 	./configure
 
-You may need to specify the locacation of the boost files explicitly:   If you installed boost in  /usr/local, you would run configure as follows:
+You may need to specify the location of the boost files explicitly:   If you installed boost in  /usr/local, you would run configure as follows:
 
 	./configure --with-boost=/usr/local