diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index b2fa0345ce427191de71f36ebeec5047ea01a149..d8af75f2bd2c855b19e157841027ab3300ad7b85 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ void unsunder(char *str, size_t true_len)
 }
 
 /* For non-null-terminated lines.  A line, by definition, shouldn't
- * normally have newlines in it, so decode its newlines into nulls. */
+ * normally have newlines in it, so decode its newlines as nulls. */
 void sunder(char *str)
 {
     assert(str != NULL);