diff --git a/Lib/pre.py b/Lib/pre.py
index 602980a..3086bd4 100644
--- a/Lib/pre.py
+++ b/Lib/pre.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
     M  MULTILINE   "^" matches the beginning of lines as well as the string.
                    "$" matches the end of lines as well as the string.
     S  DOTALL      "." matches any character at all, including the newline.
-    X  VERBOSE     Ignore whitespaces and comments for nicer looking RE's.
+    X  VERBOSE     Ignore whitespace and comments for nicer looking RE's.
 
 This module also defines an exception 'error'.