diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c8f00ba1acd8..0a08767dc743 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Rust is a fast systems programming language that guarantees
 memory safety and offers painless concurrency ([no data races]).
 It does not employ a garbage collector and has minimal runtime overhead.
 
-This repo contains the code for `rustc`, the Rust compiler, as well
+This repo contains the code for the compiler (`rustc`), as well
 as standard libraries, tools and documentation for Rust.
 
 [no data races]: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.html