diff --git a/language/functions.xml b/language/functions.xml
index 0173ec8cdb..f1989b91b0 100644
--- a/language/functions.xml
+++ b/language/functions.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.71 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.72 $ -->
  <chapter xml:id="language.functions" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
   <title>Functions</title>
 
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ echo preg_replace_callback('~-([a-z])~', function ($match) {
     turns into an object instance of the <classname>Closure</classname> 
     class. When assigning a closure to a variable, its done by a basic 
     assignment to a function declaring with an ending semicolon like any 
-    other assignments
+    other statement.
    </para>
    <para>
     <example>