--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Mar 17 22:47:08 2015 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Mar 17 21:53:17 2015 +0900
@@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@
      _('mark new/missing files as added/removed before committing')),
     ('', 'close-branch', None,
      _('mark a branch as closed, hiding it from the branch list')),
-    ('', 'amend', None, _('amend the parent of the working dir')),
+    ('', 'amend', None, _('amend the parent of the working directory')),
     ('s', 'secret', None, _('use the secret phase for committing')),
     ('e', 'edit', None, _('invoke editor on commit messages')),
     ('i', 'interactive', None, _('use interactive mode')),