diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index aa1ef03a40..4bbb87b1bf 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@
       set.</para>
 
       <para>Operating system vendors may extend the file format and introduce new fields. It is highly
-      recommended to prefix new fields with an OS specific name in order to avoid name clashes. Applications
+      recommended to prefix new fields with an OS-specific name in order to avoid name clashes. Applications
       reading this file must ignore unknown fields.</para>
 
       <para>Example: <literal>DEBIAN_BTS="debbugs://bugs.debian.org/"</literal>.</para>