diff --git a/collects/scribblings/slideshow/play.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/slideshow/play.scrbl
index 7526a88047..268f19f9aa 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/slideshow/play.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/slideshow/play.scrbl
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ effectively calls @scheme[gen] on @scheme[1.0] without a timeout to
 complete the animation and stop the auto-advance of slides. The
 @scheme[play-n] function also manages with multi-step animations.
 
-If @scheme[skip-first?] is @scheme[#f], then one less slide is
+If @scheme[skip-first?] is @scheme[#f], then one fewer slide is
 generated, because @scheme[gen] is not called on @scheme[0.0].
 
 The @scheme[title], @scheme[name], and @scheme[layout] arguments are