diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5639509bd3..ad0ea0cb5c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Wed Oct 24 11:57:24 2012  Narihiro Nakamura  <authornari@gmail.com>
 
-	* gc.c (gc_aquire_free_object): rename to match the behavior of
+	* gc.c (gc_prepare_free_objects): rename to match the behavior of
 	  this function.
 
 Wed Oct 24 11:55:19 2012  Koichi Sasada  <ko1@atdot.net>
diff --git a/gc.c b/gc.c
index 036477e997..0e3413f8f4 100644
--- a/gc.c
+++ b/gc.c
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ static void init_mark_stack(mark_stack_t *stack);
 
 static VALUE lazy_sweep_enable(void);
 static int garbage_collect(rb_objspace_t *);
-static int gc_aquire_free_object(rb_objspace_t *);
+static int gc_prepare_free_objects(rb_objspace_t *);
 static void mark_tbl(rb_objspace_t *, st_table *);
 static void rest_sweep(rb_objspace_t *);
 static void gc_mark_stacked_objects(rb_objspace_t *);
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ newobj(VALUE klass, VALUE flags)
     }
 
     if (UNLIKELY(!has_free_object)) {
-	if (!gc_aquire_free_object(objspace)) {
+	if (!gc_prepare_free_objects(objspace)) {
 	    during_gc = 0;
 	    rb_memerror();
 	}
@@ -2044,7 +2044,7 @@ rest_sweep(rb_objspace_t *objspace)
 static void gc_marks(rb_objspace_t *objspace);
 
 static int
-gc_aquire_free_object(rb_objspace_t *objspace)
+gc_prepare_free_objects(rb_objspace_t *objspace)
 {
     int res;