diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index ed8faa5719..b8e08297c9 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ Justin Terry (VM) <juterry@microsoft.com> Justin Terry (VM) via Qemu-devel <qemu
 
 
 # Also list preferred name forms where people have changed their
-# git author config, or having utf8/latin1 encoding issues.
+# git author config, or had utf8/latin1 encoding issues.
 Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
 Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de>