diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/manpages/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/manpages/chapter.xml
index 44cf03be22..b2a78f8dc1 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/manpages/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/manpages/chapter.xml
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ is an example configuration file.
 	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>man ./mynewmanpage.8</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>You can use &man.col.1; to filter the output of
-      &man.man.1; and get rid of the backspaces characters before
+      &man.man.1; and get rid of the backspace characters before
       loading the result in your favorite editor for
       spell checking:</para>