diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 9e1b132842..48b1cd3d27 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
             <para>
                 Recipes used to append metadata to other recipes are called BitBake append files.
                 BitBake append files use the <filename>.bbappend</filename> file type suffix, while  
-                underlying recipes to which metadata is being appended use the 
+                the corresponding recipes to which metadata is being appended use the 
                 <filename>.bb</filename> file type suffix.
             </para>