diff --git a/sh/colors b/sh/colors
index c1e3c11..5e8be78 100755
--- a/sh/colors
+++ b/sh/colors
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 colors() { ### @-
     ### display all combinations of foreground and background terminal colors.
     ### this only includes the basic 16-color palette.
-    ### excluding boilerplate, this script is a mere a 76-characters long!
+    ### excluding boilerplate, this script is a mere 76 characters long!
     ###
     ### ![terminal colors](https://eaguru.guru/t/terminal-colors.png)
     [ $# -eq 0 ] || { printf "%s\n" "$0: does not take arguments" >&2; return 1; }