diff --git a/man2/getpriority.2 b/man2/getpriority.2
index 7d047b789..4c880d33f 100644
--- a/man2/getpriority.2
+++ b/man2/getpriority.2
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ The glibc wrapper functions for these system calls handle the
 translations between the user-land and kernel representations
 of the nice value according to the formula
 .IR "unice\ =\ 20\ \-\ knice" .
-(Thus, the kernels 40..1 range corresponds to the
+(Thus, the kernel's 40..1 range corresponds to the
 range \-20..19 as seen by user space.)
 .SH BUGS
 According to POSIX, the nice value is a per-process setting.