diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 8d8d48cf..eb5b7546 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -17,6 +17,5 @@ in this distribution is now licensed under the Apache License:
 Other Dependencies and Licenses:
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-Tesseract use Leptonica library (http://leptonica.com/) with a very weakly
+Tesseract uses Leptonica library (http://leptonica.com/) with a very weakly
 restricted copyright license (http://leptonica.com/about-the-license.html)
-