diff --git a/doxyfile b/doxyfile
index 06b145c0a..eeb023e3c 100644
--- a/doxyfile
+++ b/doxyfile
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
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 # This tag specifies the encoding used for all characters in the config file
-# that follow. The default is UTF-8 which is also the encoding used for all
+# that follows. The default is UTF-8 which is also the encoding used for all
 # text before the first occurrence of this tag. Doxygen uses libiconv (or the
 # iconv built into libc) for the transcoding. See
 # http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv for the list of possible encodings.