diff --git a/doc/make.texi b/doc/make.texi
index 69b1473f..71317c7d 100644
--- a/doc/make.texi
+++ b/doc/make.texi
@@ -2153,7 +2153,7 @@ The wildcard characters in @code{make} are @samp{*}, @samp{?} and
 specifies a list of all the files (in the working directory) whose names
 end in @samp{.c}.
 
-If an expression matches multiple files than the results will be
+If an expression matches multiple files then the results will be
 sorted.@footnote{Some older versions of GNU @code{make} did not sort the
 results of wildcard expansion.}  However multiple expressions will not be
 globally sorted.  For example, @file{*.c *.h} will list all the files whose