diff --git a/reference/pcre/pattern.modifiers.xml b/reference/pcre/pattern.modifiers.xml
index f8163d5b54..f078c9839e 100644
--- a/reference/pcre/pattern.modifiers.xml
+++ b/reference/pcre/pattern.modifiers.xml
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
         character class, and characters between an unescaped #
         outside a character class and the next newline character,
         inclusive, are also ignored. This is equivalent to Perl's /x
-        modifier, and makes it possible to include comments inside
+        modifier, and makes it possible to include commentary inside
         complicated patterns. Note, however, that this applies only
         to data characters. Whitespace characters may never appear
         within special character sequences in a pattern, for example