diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index a00d4c6e..86aebc45 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -33,3 +33,4 @@ Contributors (chronological)
 - Ram Rachum `@cool-RR <https://github.com/cool-RR>`_
 - Romain Casati `@casatir <https://github.com/casatir>`_
 - Evgeny Kemerov `@sudoguy <https://github.com/sudoguy>`_
+- Karthikeyan Singaravelan `@tirkarthi <https://github.com/tirkarthi>`_
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index a6195d4e..dabf01ca 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Changelog
 0.18.0 (unreleased)
 -------------------
 
+Bug fixes:
+
+- Remove usage of deprecated cElementTree (:issue:`339`).
+  Thanks :user:`tirkarthi` for reporting and for the PR.
+- Address ``SyntaxWarning`` on Python 3.12 (:pr:`418`).
+  Thanks :user:`smontanaro` for the PR.
+
 Removals:
 
 - ``TextBlob.translate()`` and ``TextBlob.detect_language``, and ``textblob.translate`` 
diff --git a/src/textblob/_text.py b/src/textblob/_text.py
index d247c397..62cc0d55 100644
--- a/src/textblob/_text.py
+++ b/src/textblob/_text.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import string
 import types
 from itertools import chain
-from xml.etree import cElementTree
+from xml.etree import ElementTree
 
 basestring = (str, bytes)
 
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ def load(self, path=None):
         if not os.path.exists(path):
             return
         words, synsets, labels = {}, {}, {}
-        xml = cElementTree.parse(path)
+        xml = ElementTree.parse(path)
         xml = xml.getroot()
         for w in xml.findall("word"):
             if self._confidence is None or self._confidence <= float(