diff --git a/src/shared/specifier.c b/src/shared/specifier.c
index 9034cc20d7..6839d1892d 100644
--- a/src/shared/specifier.c
+++ b/src/shared/specifier.c
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ int specifier_user_name(char specifier, void *data, void *userdata, char **ret)
         /* If we are UID 0 (root), this will not result in NSS, otherwise it might. This is good, as we want to be able
          * to run this in PID 1, where our user ID is 0, but where NSS lookups are not allowed.
 
-         * We don't user getusername_malloc() here, because we don't want to look at $USER, to remain consistent with
+         * We don't use getusername_malloc() here, because we don't want to look at $USER, to remain consistent with
          * specifer_user_id() below.
          */