diff --git a/man2/write.2 b/man2/write.2
index e1d743152..b651a43d9 100644
--- a/man2/write.2
+++ b/man2/write.2
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ perform a
 (or
 .BR writev (2))
 at the same time, then the I/O operations were not atomic
-with respect updating the file offset,
+with respect to updating the file offset,
 with the result that the blocks of data output by the two processes
 might (incorrectly) overlap.
 This problem was fixed in Linux 3.14.