diff --git a/man2/bind.2 b/man2/bind.2
index fc28e3e2e..f7c9ed0e8 100644
--- a/man2/bind.2
+++ b/man2/bind.2
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ When a socket is created with
 .BR socket (2),
 it exists in a name space (address family) but has no address assigned to it.
 .BR bind ()
-assigns the address specified to by
+assigns the address specified by
 .I addr
 to the socket referred to by the file descriptor
 .IR sockfd .