diff --git a/share/dict/README b/share/dict/README
index 85dc0ca5b221..b8d61471a292 100644
--- a/share/dict/README
+++ b/share/dict/README
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Dictionaries for other languages, e.g. Afrikaans, American, Aussie,
 Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French,
 German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Polish,
 Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Yiddish, are available
-at ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists.
+at ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists.
 
 Country names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166.