diff --git a/pep-0318.txt b/pep-0318.txt
index 507590493..ca0730bd0 100644
--- a/pep-0318.txt
+++ b/pep-0318.txt
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ decorators are being added.
 Why Is This So Hard?
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-A couple decorators (``classmethod()`` and ``staticmethod()``) have
+Two decorators (``classmethod()`` and ``staticmethod()``) have
 been available in Python since version 2.2.  It's been assumed since
 approximately that time that some syntactic support for them would
 eventually be added to the language.  Given this assumption, one might