diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7
index 1f433b65d..3742bb8c9 100644
--- a/man7/inotify.7
+++ b/man7/inotify.7
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ the state of a set of filesystem objects.
 However, robust applications should allow for the fact that bugs
 in the monitoring logic or races of the kind described below
 may leave the cache inconsistent with the filesystem state.
-It is probably wise to to do some consistency checking,
+It is probably wise to do some consistency checking,
 and rebuild the cache when inconsistencies are detected.
 .SS Reading events from an inotify file descriptor
 To determine what events have occurred, an application