diff --git a/README b/README
index c1fbbbe3dfa..acb7fddcfce 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ executable which is compiling the library.
 Unsupported systems
 -------------------
 
-A number of systems is not supported in Python 2.7 anymore. Some
+A number of systems are not supported in Python 2.7 anymore. Some
 support code is still present, but will be removed in later versions.
 If you still need to use current Python versions on these systems,
 please send a message to python-dev@python.org indicating that you