diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-porting/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-porting/chapter.xml
index 26cc7fc9e0..0a95b46099 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-porting/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-porting/chapter.xml
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
       house a backup on a home page and list it as the second
       <varname>MASTER_SITES</varname>.</para>
 
-    <para>If the port requires some additional `patches' that are
+    <para>If the port requires additional patches that are
       available on the Internet, fetch them too and put them in
       <varname>DISTDIR</varname>.  Do not worry if they come from a
       site other than where the main source tarball comes, we have a