diff --git a/.vale/styles/Vocab/Terms/accept.txt b/.vale/styles/Vocab/Terms/accept.txt
index 1e83c94af6..24acdfc205 100644
--- a/.vale/styles/Vocab/Terms/accept.txt
+++ b/.vale/styles/Vocab/Terms/accept.txt
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ deanonymizing
 deinstall
 demultiplexer
 dereference
-descendents
 devclass
 disklabel
 distfiles?
diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/design-44bsd/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/design-44bsd/_index.adoc
index c149640619..bbfe3a1c00 100644
--- a/documentation/content/en/books/design-44bsd/_index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/content/en/books/design-44bsd/_index.adoc
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ The detailed design and implementation of signals is described in Section 4.7.
 Processes are organized into _process groups_.
 Process groups are used to control access to terminals and to provide a means of distributing signals to collections of related processes.
 A process inherits its process group from its parent process.
-Mechanisms are provided by the kernel to allow a process to alter its process group or the process group of its descendents.
+Mechanisms are provided by the kernel to allow a process to alter its process group or the process group of its descendants.
 Creating a new process group is easy; the value of a new process group is ordinarily the process identifier of the creating process.
 
 The group of processes in a process group is sometimes referred to as a _job_ and is manipulated by high-level system software, such as the shell.