diff --git a/manual/creating_plugins.rst b/manual/creating_plugins.rst
index 5033ef1127..419e612e5d 100644
--- a/manual/creating_plugins.rst
+++ b/manual/creating_plugins.rst
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ calibre's plugin loading system defines a couple of built-in functions that allo
         a forward slash as the path separator, even on Windows. When you pass
         in a single name, the function will return the raw bytes of that file
         or None if the name was not found in the ZIP file. If you pass in more
-        than one name then it returns a dict mapping the names to bytes.  If a
-        name is not found, it will not be present in the returned dict.
+        than one name then it returns a dictionary mapping the names to bytes.  If a
+        name is not found, it will not be present in the returned dictionary.
 
     **get_icons(name_or_list_of_names, plugin_name='')**
         A wrapper for get_resources() that creates QIcon objects