diff --git a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR
index 8b9430bd305..091c267579b 100644
--- a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR
+++ b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR
@@ -191,6 +191,6 @@ constants with anything like the universality of e and pi."
 printer drivers.  Couldn't that lead to problems for the printer
 drivers?"
   "Current research is that software does not suffer feelings of
-depression or loneliness when it is left out or the picture, so I
+depression or loneliness when it is left out of the picture, so I
 wouldn't worry about it too much."
                                 -- Lennart Borgman and Jason Rumney