diff --git a/Lib/test/test_genericpath.py b/Lib/test/test_genericpath.py
index 5d68e98..9a0f226 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_genericpath.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_genericpath.py
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@
                     self.assertIsInstance(abspath(path), str)
 
     @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == 'darwin',
-        "Mac OS X deny the creation of a directory with an invalid utf8 name")
+        "Mac OS X denies the creation of a directory with an invalid utf8 name")
     def test_nonascii_abspath(self):
         # Test non-ASCII, non-UTF8 bytes in the path.
         with support.temp_cwd(b'\xe7w\xf0'):