diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 8514ed3c3c6..8250cac1cc4 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1942,7 +1942,7 @@ Previously it produced a nonsense value, -1, that was never intended.
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 29.1
 
 +++
-** 'file-expand-wildcards' can now also take a regexp match.
+** 'file-expand-wildcards' can now also take a regexp as PATTERN argument.
 
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 ** vc-mtn (the backend for Monotone) has been made obsolete.