diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
index cebb571834..95aea426be 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
   <entry>none</entry>
 
   <entry>Implies the port will depend on the FUSE library and handle
-    the the dependency on the kernel module depending on the version
+    the dependency on the kernel module depending on the version
     of &os;.</entry>
 </row>