diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
index 2d93f2f1d4..43e0fef644 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
@@ -1770,7 +1770,7 @@
 	</question>
 
 	<answer>
-	  <para>This is classically a case of &os; and DOS or some other
+	  <para>This is classically a case of &os; and some other
 	    OS conflicting over their ideas of disk <link
 	      linkend="geometry">geometry</link>.  You will have to
 	    reinstall &os;, but obeying the instructions given above