diff --git a/man2/mount.2 b/man2/mount.2
index c7d47a801..a14fbf12f 100644
--- a/man2/mount.2
+++ b/man2/mount.2
@@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ Mount-point namespaces can be (and usually are)
 shared between multiple processes,
 and changes to the namespace (i.e., mounts and unmounts) by one process
 are visible to all other processes sharing the same namespace.
-(The pre-2.4.19 Linux situation can be considered as one in which there
-was a single namespace was shared by every process on the system.)
+(The pre-2.4.19 Linux situation can be considered as one in which
+a single namespace was shared by every process on the system.)
 
 A child process created by
 .BR fork (2)