diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8
index 136448c2..7dae5af5 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip.8
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ Linux-2.x can pack routes into several routing
 tables identified by a number in the range from 1 to 255 or by
 name from the file
 .B /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
-. By default all normal routes are inserted into the
+By default all normal routes are inserted into the
 .B main
 table (ID 254) and the kernel only uses this table when calculating routes.