diff --git a/chapter06/man.xml b/chapter06/man.xml
index bc0404e9e..b6c9a312d 100644
--- a/chapter06/man.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man.xml
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed
Two adjustments need to be made to the sources of Man.
-The first is a sed substitution to add the
+The first is a sed substitution to add the
-R switch to the PAGER
variable so that escape sequences are properly handled by Less:
sed -i 's@-is@&R@g' configure
-The second is also a sed substitution to comment out the
+The second is also a sed substitution to comment out the
MANPATH /usr/man
line in the
man.conf file to prevent redundant results when
using programs such as whatis: