diff --git a/scripts/oe-setup-builddir b/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
index 2f8a064..7fefc52 100755
--- a/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
+++ b/scripts/oe-setup-builddir
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ if [ "x" = "x$OECORELOCALCONF" ]; then
 fi
 if ! (test -r "$BUILDDIR/conf/local.conf"); then
 cat <<EOM
-You had no conf/local.conf file. This configuration file has therefore beend 
+You had no conf/local.conf file. This configuration file has therefore been
 created for you with some default values. You may wish to edit it to use a 
 different MACHINE (target hardware) or enable parallel build options to take 
 advantage of multiple cores for example. See the file for more information as