diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index d5b41dd4951f..81ed365bb16b 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW:
 		set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/XXX"
 
 	where XXX is the root slice of one of the disks that composed
-	the mirror (i.e.: /dev/ad0s1a). You can can than rebuild
+	the mirror (i.e.: /dev/ad0s1a). You can then rebuild
 	the array the same way you built it originally.
 
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