diff --git a/man2/shmget.2 b/man2/shmget.2
index 14bd48b66..5e67977b2 100644
--- a/man2/shmget.2
+++ b/man2/shmget.2
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ on Linux, this limit can be read and modified via
 .\" that we could create one more segment than SHMMNI -- MTK
 .\" This /proc file is not available in Linux 2.2 and earlier -- MTK
 .PP
-The implementation has no specific limits for the per process maximum
+The implementation has no specific limits for the per-process maximum
 number of shared memory segments
 .RB ( SHMSEG ).
 .SS Linux Notes