diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
index 85fb5c15a72..543c55ea43d 100644
--- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex
+++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -2588,7 +2588,7 @@ lay-out you can imagine.  The standard module
 for padding strings to a given column width; these will be discussed
 shortly.  The second way is to use the \code{\%} operator with a
 string as the left argument.  The \code{\%} operator interprets the
-left argument as a C much like a \cfunction{sprintf()}-style format
+left argument much like a \cfunction{sprintf()}-style format
 string to be applied to the right argument, and returns the string
 resulting from this formatting operation.