diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
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@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ There are two factors that produce this result:
 
 After the call to :meth:`~list.append`, the content of the mutable object has
 changed from ``[]`` to ``[10]``.  Since both the variables refer to the same
-object, accessing either one of them accesses the modified value ``[10]``.
+object, using either name accesses the modified value ``[10]``.
 
 If we instead assign an immutable object to ``x``::