Update whatsnew according to suggestion by jreback

Author: roberthdevries

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst

@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ Other enhancements
 - :meth:`~pandas.io.json.read_json` now accepts `nrows` parameter. (:issue:`33916`).
 - :meth `~pandas.io.gbq.read_gbq` now allows to disable progress bar (:issue:`33360`).
 - :meth:`~pandas.io.gbq.read_gbq` now supports the ``max_results`` kwarg from ``pandas-gbq`` (:issue:`34639`).
-- :meth:`DataFrame.to_excel` can now also generate OpenOffice spreadsheet (.ods) files (:issue:`27222`)
+- :meth:`DataFrame.to_excel` can now also write OpenOffice spreadsheet (.ods) files (:issue:`27222`)
 
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