diff --git a/man7/pipe.7 b/man7/pipe.7
index d9983f795..4071ebd35 100644
--- a/man7/pipe.7
+++ b/man7/pipe.7
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ A pipe is created using
 which creates a new pipe and returns two file descriptors,
 one referring to the read end of the pipe, 
 the other referring to the write end.
-Pipes only allow communication between related processes:
+Pipes allow communication between related processes:
 one process creates the pipe, and then allows another process to inherit 
 duplicate file descriptors referring to the pipe as a result of calling 
 .BR fork (2).