diff --git a/man2/dup.2 b/man2/dup.2
index 3739844b9..0e0be81cd 100644
--- a/man2/dup.2
+++ b/man2/dup.2
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ They refer to the same open file description (see
 and thus share file offset and file status flags;
 for example, if the file offset is modified by using
 .BR lseek (2)
-on one of the descriptors, the position is also changed for the other.
+on one of the descriptors, the offset is also changed for the other.
 
 The two descriptors do not share file descriptor flags
 (the close-on-exec flag).