diff --git a/Recovering-Keys-Without-MMGen.md b/Recovering-Keys-Without-MMGen.md
index 70b464b..40f855e 100644
--- a/Recovering-Keys-Without-MMGen.md
+++ b/Recovering-Keys-Without-MMGen.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ bit of work ahead of us.  Let's use our just-generated key #1 as an example:
 
 WIF format prepends hex '80' to the beginning of the key.  If the key is
 associated with a compressed public key, it also appends '01'.  Since MMGen uses
-uncompressed public keys, we just append the '80':
+uncompressed public keys, we just prepend the '80':
 
 		8005d7219524b983290138a60ada101370007f59a625c43a46f0f8d92950955e36