diff --git a/man/major.texi b/man/major.texi
index 35b95d06bab..e8d9478de63 100644
--- a/man/major.texi
+++ b/man/major.texi
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ needed in Lisp syntax to include a @samp{\} in the string, which is
 needed to suppress the special meaning of @samp{.} in regexps.)  If the
 element has the form @code{(@var{regexp} @var{mode-function}
 @var{flag})} and @var{flag} is non-@code{nil}, then after calling
-@var{function}, the suffix that matched @var{regexp} is discarded and
-the list is searched again for another match.
+@var{mode-function}, the suffix that matched @var{regexp} is discarded
+and the list is searched again for another match.
 
   You can specify which major mode should be used for editing a certain
 file by a special sort of text in the first nonblank line of the file.  The