diff --git a/fallocate.1 b/fallocate.1
index d1e2288..a3c690c 100644
--- a/fallocate.1
+++ b/fallocate.1
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 \fBfallocate\fR preallocates blocks to a file.  Only certain filesystems
 support the fallocate system call.  This is a very fast operation to allocate
 uninitialized blocks in a file without doing any IO.
-As  of the Linux Kernel v2.6.31, the fallocate system call is supported
+As  of the Linux kernel v2.6.31, the fallocate system call is supported
 by the btrfs, ext4, ocfs2, and xfs filesystems.
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