diff --git a/gnu/packages/aspell.scm b/gnu/packages/aspell.scm
index 5b059a939e..50a6f5d719 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/aspell.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/aspell.scm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
-;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2019 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
+;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Christopher Andersson <christopher@8bits.nu>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Theodoros Foradis <theodoros@foradis.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2019 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
@@ -371,8 +371,8 @@ (define* (aspell-word-list language synopsis
     (source (origin
               (method url-fetch)
               (uri (string-append
-                    "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/scowl-"
-                    version ".tar.gz"))
+                    "mirror://sourceforge/wordlist/SCOWL/"
+                    version "/scowl-" version ".tar.gz"))
               (sha256
                (base32
                 "11lkrnhwrf5mvrrq45k4mads3n9aswgac8dc25ba61c75alxb5rs"))))