diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 6555a66..ba0552c 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 //! *effective user ID* that says which user's permissions it is using.
 //! Furthermore, users can be the members of *groups*, which also have names
 //! and IDs. This functionality is exposed in libc, the C standard library,
-//! but as this an unsafe Rust interface. This wrapper library provides a safe
+//! but this an unsafe Rust interface. This wrapper library provides a safe
 //! interface, using User and Group objects instead of low-level pointers and
 //! strings. It also offers basic caching functionality.
 //!