diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a78841b..93d2c90 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -788,8 +788,8 @@ enabled because glibc `mallinfo` is inherently broken. It defines the fields as
 misuses the fields and provides a strange, idiosyncratic set of values rather
 than following the SVID/XPG `mallinfo` definition. The `malloc_info` function
 is still provided, with a similar format as what Android uses, with tweaks for
-hardened\_malloc and the the version set to `hardened_malloc-1`. The data
-format may be changed in the future.
+hardened\_malloc and the version set to `hardened_malloc-1`. The data format
+may be changed in the future.
 
 As an example, consider the follow program from the hardened\_malloc tests: