From 00b8b9513172606012d5c59d826c53e79e2e13e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antony Lee <anntzer.lee@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 10:55:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix spelling.

A quick googling hasn't shown any use of "co-erce"; MW (e.g.) only gives
"coerce".
---
 lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
index 917e6dd17912..f402a2ee3d23 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -1629,7 +1629,7 @@ def plot(self, *args, scalex=True, scaley=True, data=None, **kwargs):
     def plot_date(self, x, y, fmt='o', tz=None, xdate=True, ydate=False,
                   **kwargs):
         """
-        Plot co-ercing the axis to treat floats as dates.
+        Plot coercing the axis to treat floats as dates.
 
         .. admonition:: Discouraged