diff --git a/chapter08/glibc.xml b/chapter08/glibc.xml
index ed25a1ba8..3932a2147 100644
--- a/chapter08/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter08/glibc.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-fhs-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now fix a regression causing the posix_memalign() function 
-    to be very slow slow in some conditions.</para>
+    to be very slow in some conditions:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-memalign-patch;</userinput></screen>