diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-sleuth.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-sleuth.adoc
index 716cea27d..0db4e6b31 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-sleuth.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-sleuth.adoc
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Fortunately, for the asynchronous processing you can provide explicit naming.
 
 === @SpanName annotation
 
-You can do name the span explicitly via the `@SpanName` annotation.
+You can name the span explicitly via the `@SpanName` annotation.
 
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