diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/hideshow.el b/lisp/progmodes/hideshow.el
index 9cca95f5bc7..a1d601412f2 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/hideshow.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/hideshow.el
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ For example, in c-like modes, if we wish to also hide the curly braces
 should return the starting point (at the end of line) of the hidden
 region.
 
-It is called with a single argument ARG which is the the position in
+It is called with a single argument ARG which is the position in
 buffer after the block beginning.
 
 It should return the position from where we should start hiding.