From 9f2e6d28a51e5c469912373cacb96bf16e2b9d81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jody Klymak <jklymak@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 12:00:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #12326: fixed minor spelling error in docstring

---
 lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
index de5acba200e5..2ed588025e6d 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -1511,7 +1511,7 @@ def plot(self, *args, scalex=True, scaley=True, **kwargs):
 
         See Also
         --------
-        scatter : XY scatter plot with markers of variing size and/or color (
+        scatter : XY scatter plot with markers of varying size and/or color (
             sometimes also called bubble chart).