diff --git a/pep-0393.txt b/pep-0393.txt
index 35099d9b2..fd877ff6c 100644
--- a/pep-0393.txt
+++ b/pep-0393.txt
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ creation time are called "compact" unicode objects; character data
 immediately follow the base structure. If the maximum character is
 less than 128, they use the PyASCIIObject structure, and the UTF-8
 data, the UTF-8 length and the wstr length are the same as the length
-and the ASCII data. For non-ASCII strings, the PyCompactObject
+of the ASCII data. For non-ASCII strings, the PyCompactObject
 structure is used. Resizing compact objects is not supported.
 
 Objects for which the maximum character is not given at creation time