diff --git a/doc/development/gotchas.md b/doc/development/gotchas.md
index cab79b24f94de60ff2b27c5f999a88c365f1a5eb..c7eed880554dce86f7a3710ea1df8eb21fbf4a01 100644
--- a/doc/development/gotchas.md
+++ b/doc/development/gotchas.md
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ allow_next_instance_of(Project) do |project|
 end
 ```
 
-If we also want to initialized the instance with some particular arguments, we
+If we also want to initialize the instance with some particular arguments, we
 could also pass it like:
 
 ```ruby