diff --git a/src-docs/shared_state/crdts.md b/src-docs/shared_state/crdts.md
index 6eb7914..cb60f8f 100644
--- a/src-docs/shared_state/crdts.md
+++ b/src-docs/shared_state/crdts.md
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ then it might be worthwhile to design a specialized CRDT to solve it,
 and it may be reassuring to know that
 these data structures do not always require much complexity.
 
-In practice the order of applications will matter,
+In practice the order of operations will matter,
 especially when dealing with data structures like lists or arrays.
 If two concurrent operations append items to the end of a list
 then it's reasonable to insert them in an arbitrary sequence.