diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index c82fd51f9d5..c00e1041f1b 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -15380,7 +15380,7 @@ except our fingertips will have been singed.
 		-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
 %
 When you are about to do an objective and scientific piece of
-investigation of a topic, it is well to gave the answer firmly in hand,
+investigation of a topic, it is well to have the answer firmly in hand,
 so that you can proceed forthrightly, without being deflected or
 swayed, directly to the goal.
 		-- Amrom Katz
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
index 024d3cc7692..38f469d7991 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
@@ -52318,7 +52318,7 @@ When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
 		-- Roger Zelazny, "Doorways in the Sand"
 %
 When you are about to do an objective and scientific piece of investigation
-of a topic, it is well to gave the answer firmly in hand, so that you can
+of a topic, it is well to have the answer firmly in hand, so that you can
 proceed forthrightly, without being deflected or swayed, directly to the
 goal.
 		-- Amrom Katz