diff --git a/docs/scripting.xml b/docs/scripting.xml
index 8b1c9e38b..5c7ba239f 100644
--- a/docs/scripting.xml
+++ b/docs/scripting.xml
@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ if(s) code_to_be_done_on_match end
 		  <indexterm><primary>regex</primary></indexterm></term>
 	      <listitem>
 		  <para>
-		  	This is actually a wrapper around NSE' PCRE library <literal>exec</literal> function (see <xref linkend="nse-pcre"/>, thus
+		  	This is actually a wrapper around NSE's PCRE library <literal>exec</literal> function (see <xref linkend="nse-pcre"/>), thus
 			giving script developers the possibility to use regular expressions
 			for delimiting instead of Lua's string patterns. If you want to get
 			the data in chunks separated by <function>regex</function> (which has to be a valid