diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index f1d7bb4203f0b34a0c02385dd4010b12c947cec3..6f8c25196829eeaa199a0c29dd31e8c0b87c4cd6 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -621,8 +621,8 @@ scheme://host:port/path
 For a greater explanation of the format please see RFC3986.
 
 If the given URL lacks the scheme (such as "http://" or "ftp://" etc) then
-libcurl will attempt to resolve the protocol based on the given host name,
-which may be one of the following:
+libcurl will attempt to resolve the protocol based on one of the following
+given host names:
 
 HTTP, FTP, DICT, LDAP, IMAP, POP3 or SMTP