diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
index 4b77a00ccb..25a465176d 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
@@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@
 	  <para>The <command>cvs login</command> command, stores the passwords
 	    that are used for authenticating to the CVS server in a file
 	    called <filename>.cvspass</filename> in your
-	    <envar>HOME</envar> directory.  If this file doesn't exist,
+	    <envar>HOME</envar> directory.  If this file does not exist,
 	    you might get an error when trying to use <command>cvs
 	    login</command> for the first time.  Just make an empty
 	    <filename>.cvspass</filename> file, and retry to login.</para>