diff --git a/manpages/shorewall.conf.xml b/manpages/shorewall.conf.xml
index ca9065d2e..c8f430d30 100644
--- a/manpages/shorewall.conf.xml
+++ b/manpages/shorewall.conf.xml
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@
           url="../ScalabilityAndPerformance.html">the complete matrix of host
           groups defined by the zones, interfaces and hosts files</ulink>. Any
           traffic that didn't correspond to an element of that matrix was
-          rejected in one of the built-in changes. When the matrix is sparse,
+          rejected in one of the built-in chains. When the matrix is sparse,
           this results in lots of largely useless rules.</para>
 
           <para>These extra rules can be eliminated by setting