diff --git a/wp-includes/wp-db.php b/wp-includes/wp-db.php
index 5641c0638c..a9de7354de 100644
--- a/wp-includes/wp-db.php
+++ b/wp-includes/wp-db.php
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ class wpdb {
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
-	<title><?php WordPress &rsaquo; Error ?></title>
+	<title>WordPress &rsaquo; Error</title>
 	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
 	<style media="screen" type="text/css">
 	<!--
