diff --git a/.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.txt b/.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.txt
index 04dab423e6..4d5972c8c9 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.txt
+++ b/.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.txt
@@ -20,5 +20,4 @@ ser
 strat
 te
 wast
-wit
 wont
diff --git a/docs/examples/httpput-postfields.c b/docs/examples/httpput-postfields.c
index fdd6ffe0dd..5f410837b8 100644
--- a/docs/examples/httpput-postfields.c
+++ b/docs/examples/httpput-postfields.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static const char olivertwist[]=
   "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons "
   "it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign "
   "no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or "
-  "small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and "
+  "small: to ___, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and "
   "date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of "
   "no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at "
   "all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed";