diff --git a/ch16/ch16_part1.py b/ch16/ch16_part1.py
index 19fdf42a..4ca9982a 100644
--- a/ch16/ch16_part1.py
+++ b/ch16/ch16_part1.py
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ def build_rnn_model(embedding_dim, vocab_size,
 # # Appendix
 # 
 
-# ### A -- An alterntaive way to get the dataset: using tensorflow_datasets
+# ### A -- An alternative way to get the dataset: using tensorflow_datasets