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diff --git a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
index 8bc7e209894..70df555d877 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
@@ -1074,9 +1074,9 @@ that result from encoding unsupported characters.
 used on various systems for representing end of line in files.  The
 Unix convention, used on GNU and Unix systems, is to use the linefeed
 character (also called newline).  The DOS convention, used on
-MS-Windows and MS-DOS systems, is to use a carriage-return and a
+MS-Windows and MS-DOS systems, is to use a carriage return and a
 linefeed at the end of a line.  The Mac convention is to use just
-carriage-return.  (This was the convention used in Classic Mac OS.)
+carriage return.  (This was the convention used in Classic Mac OS.)
 
 @cindex base coding system
 @cindex variant coding system