diff --git a/simgear/scene/model/SGText.cxx b/simgear/scene/model/SGText.cxx
index 0f3c705c..17810293 100644
--- a/simgear/scene/model/SGText.cxx
+++ b/simgear/scene/model/SGText.cxx
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ void SGText::UpdateCallback::operator()(osg::Node * node, osg::NodeVisitor *nv )
   if( text->getText().createUTF8EncodedString().compare( buf )  ) {
     // be lazy and set the text only if the property has changed.
     // update() computes the glyph representation which looks 
-    // more expensive than a the above string compare.
+    // more expensive than the above string compare.
     text->setText( buf, osgText::String::ENCODING_UTF8 );
     text->update();
   }