diff --git a/dev-gap/ctbllib/ctbllib-1.3.6.ebuild b/dev-gap/ctbllib/ctbllib-1.3.6.ebuild
index e8ad5769cf78b..07eedf502da9f 100644
--- a/dev-gap/ctbllib/ctbllib-1.3.6.ebuild
+++ b/dev-gap/ctbllib/ctbllib-1.3.6.ebuild
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ BDEPEND="test? (
 	dev-gap/tomlib
 )"
 
-# The are "extra" docs and not the HTML produced by GAPDoc. The glob
+# These are "extra" docs and not the HTML produced by GAPDoc. The glob
 # gets expanded if we use a plain variable but not if we use a bash
 # array.
 HTML_DOCS="htm/*"