diff --git a/doc/tips/issue_tracking.mdwn b/doc/tips/issue_tracking.mdwn
index 276cfea01..8f08bc692 100644
--- a/doc/tips/issue_tracking.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/issue_tracking.mdwn
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ In the rare cases where automatic merging fails
 because of concurrent edits to the same part of a
 page, regular commit conflict markers are shown in
 the file to let you resolve the conflict, as you
-would for conflicting edit in source code.
+would for conflicting edits in source code.
 
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