diff --git a/docs/developing.md b/docs/developing.md
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ A guard (ScopedGeojsonLoggerGuard) requires a logging policy. Per default we pro
 
 The initialisation to do so looks like this:
 `util::ScopedGeojsonLoggerGuard<util::NodeIdVectorToLineString> geojson_guard( "debug.geojson", data-for-conversion);`
-Make sure to give the guar a name, so it actually gets a lifetime.
+Make sure to give the guard a name, so it actually gets a lifetime.
 
 The field `data-for-conversion` can be an arbitrary long set of features and needs to match the parameters used for constructing our policy (in this case `util::NodeIdVectorToLineString`).