kill extra word
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index aba58ec..2714633 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -392,9 +392,9 @@
    operator: <<
    operator: >>
 
-Bitwise operations only make sense only for integers.  Negative numbers are
-treated as their 2's complement value (this assumes a sufficiently large number
-of bits that no overflow occurs during the operation).
+Bitwise operations only make sense for integers.  Negative numbers are treated
+as their 2's complement value (this assumes a sufficiently large number of bits
+that no overflow occurs during the operation).
 
 The priorities of the binary bitwise operations are all lower than the numeric
 operations and higher than the comparisons; the unary operation ``~`` has the