diff --git a/elixir/README.md b/elixir/README.md
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@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ gcloud auth application-default login
 
 ### Connecting to Cloud SQL instance as the `firezone` user
 
-Some operations like DROPing indexes to recreate them require you to connect as the table owner, which in our case is the `firezone` user.
+Some operations like DROP'ing indexes to recreate them require you to connect as the table owner, which in our case is the `firezone` user.
 
 The password for this user is randomly generated by Terraform, so to connect as this user you need to obtain the password
 from the Application configuration inside a running elixir container.