diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7
index d34e536f1..a0406d649 100644
--- a/man7/signal.7
+++ b/man7/signal.7
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ that triggered a hardware exception (e.g.,
 .B SIGSEGV
 for an invalid memory access, or
 .B SIGFPE
-for a math error), or because it was it was
+for a math error), or because it was
 targeted at a specific thread using
 interfaces such as
 .BR tgkill (2)