diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7
index 44d1cb6cb..f20390cb8 100644
--- a/man7/uri.7
+++ b/man7/uri.7
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ A more portable syntax is to use an empty string as the server name,
 for example,
 <file:///etc/passwd>; this form does the same thing
 and is easily recognized by pattern matchers and older programs as a URI.
-Note that if you really mean to say "start from the current location," don't
+Note that if you really mean to say "start from the current location", don't
 specify the scheme at all; use a relative address like <../test.txt>,
 which has the side-effect of being scheme-independent.
 An example of this scheme is <file:///etc/passwd>.