diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index edb0384694d..af9938447b6 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -1538,7 +1538,7 @@ SELECT E'\\xDEADBEEF';
be equivalent to timestamp without time
zone, and PostgreSQL honors that
behavior. (Releases prior to 7.3 treated it as timestamp
- with time zone.) timestamptz is taken as an
+ with time zone.) timestamptz is accepted as an
abbreviation for timestamp with time zone; this is a
PostgreSQL extension.