--- a/manipulating-strings/script.rst	Mon Nov 08 01:34:02 2010 +0530
+++ b/manipulating-strings/script.rst	Mon Nov 08 01:36:47 2010 +0530
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 
     s[1:-1]
 
-gives a substring of s, without the first and the last
+gives the substring of s, without the first and the last
 characters of s. 
 
 ::