diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_url_set.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_url_set.3
index 03a223b79f..46a9ce50fa 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_url_set.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_url_set.3
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ the path. That is the procedure where curl otherwise removes sequences of
 dot-slash and dot-dot etc. The same option used for transfers is called
 \fICURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS(3)\fP.
 .IP CURLU_ALLOW_SPACE
-If set, a the URL parser allows space (ASCII 32) where possible. The URL
+If set, the URL parser allows space (ASCII 32) where possible. The URL
 syntax does normally not allow spaces anywhere, but they should be encoded as
 %20 or '+'. When spaces are allowed, they are still not allowed in the scheme.
 When space is used and allowed in a URL, it will be stored as-is unless