diff --git a/pep-0008.txt b/pep-0008.txt
index 19fc9bb6d..30a4dddf2 100644
--- a/pep-0008.txt
+++ b/pep-0008.txt
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ There's also the style of using a short unique prefix to group related
 names together.  This is not used much in Python, but it is mentioned
 for completeness.  For example, the ``os.stat()`` function returns a
 tuple whose items traditionally have names like ``st_mode``,
-``st_size`, ``st_mtime`` and so on.  (This is done to emphasize the
+``st_size``, ``st_mtime`` and so on.  (This is done to emphasize the
 correspondence with the fields of the POSIX system call struct, which
 helps programmers familiar with that.)