diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
index a13aed3b43..b6c1afa942 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
@@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ login:</screen>
 	    everything else to run, and start any services that you have
 	    configured to run in the background doing useful things.</para>
 	</footnote>, it will present you with a prompt and ask for a valid
-	username.</para>
+	username:</para>
 
       <screen>login:</screen>