diff --git a/spec/src/main/asciidoc/RequestProcessingLifecycle.adoc b/spec/src/main/asciidoc/RequestProcessingLifecycle.adoc
index da1a229384..b44dacf5f8 100644
--- a/spec/src/main/asciidoc/RequestProcessingLifecycle.adoc
+++ b/spec/src/main/asciidoc/RequestProcessingLifecycle.adoc
@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ __language[{-|\_}country[{-|_}variant]]__ without the colons, for example
 ’ ___ ’.
 
 To facilitate BCP 47 support, the Locale
-parsing mentioned above is done only if the JDK Locale.languageForTag
+parsing mentioned above is done only if the JDK Locale.forLanguageTag
 method does not return a Locale with a language in it. The additional
 format of the Locale string is as specified by that method.