diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.sgml
index 80351577..3d12425e 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ Tables
 	</verb></tscreen>
    <it/80/
    <P> Shows the number of characters possible in x direction.
-   <P> It it higly recommended to be familiarized with these programs (at least). There are tons of
+   <P> It is higly recommended to be familiarized with these programs (at least). There are tons of
    	little programs that will let you do real magic on the command line.
    <P> [some samples are taken from man pages or FAQs]
     </sect1>