diff --git a/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt b/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
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--- a/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
+++ b/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
 their work on their own time, asking programmers to do extra work for no
 gain, for free, is not a possibility.
 
-Security issues are also a very important for Linux.  When a
+Security issues are also very important for Linux.  When a
 security issue is found, it is fixed in a very short amount of time.  A
 number of times this has caused internal kernel interfaces to be
 reworked to prevent the security problem from occurring.  When this