diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7
index 90222c3b9..f00219e4c 100644
--- a/man7/inotify.7
+++ b/man7/inotify.7
@@ -388,8 +388,7 @@ In kernels before 2.6.16, the
 flag does not work.
 
 Before kernel 2.6.25,
-a kernel bug meant that the kernel code that was intended
-to coalesce successive identical events
+the kernel code that was intended to coalesce successive identical events
 (i.e., the two most recent events could potentially be coalesced
 if the older had not yet been read)
 instead checked if the most recent event could be coalesced with the