diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml
index c05466e19e..176bfdcc29 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml
@@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ AT&amp;B2&amp;W</programlisting>
 	  the FreeBSD system through the console and issue a <command>ps
 	    ax</command> to see if FreeBSD is trying to run a
 	  <command>getty</command> process on the correct port. You should see
-	  a lines like this among the processes displayed:</para>
+	  lines like these among the processes displayed:</para>
 
 	<screen>  114 ??  I      0:00.10 /usr/libexec/getty V19200 ttyd0
   115 ??  I      0:00.10 /usr/libexec/getty V19200 ttyd1</screen>