diff --git a/docs/releases/1.0-porting-guide.txt b/docs/releases/1.0-porting-guide.txt
index 9a5d487f38..f87da1c8d0 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.0-porting-guide.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.0-porting-guide.txt
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ load_data::
       management.call_command('flush', verbosity=0, interactive=False)
       management.call_command('loaddata', 'test_data', verbosity=0)
 
-Subcommands must now preceed options
+Subcommands must now precede options
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 ``django-admin.py`` and ``manage.py`` now require subcommands to precede