diff --git a/ner/client.py b/ner/client.py
index a532b8d..19253e3 100644
--- a/ner/client.py
+++ b/ner/client.py
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ def __init__(self, host='localhost', port=1234, location='/stanford-ner/ner',
     def tag_text(self, text):
         """Tag the text with proper named entities token-by-token.
 
-        :param text: raw text strig to tag
+        :param text: raw text string to tag
         :returns: tagged text in given output format
         """
         for s in ('\f', '\n', '\r', '\t', '\v'): #strip whitespaces