diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.md b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.md
index 8c8c483d16..e515b3b7b0 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.md
+++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.md
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ have a prototype similar to:
  size_t function(char *bufptr, size_t size, size_t nitems, void *userp);
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 Where *bufptr* is the pointer to a buffer we fill in with data to upload
-and *size*nitems* is the size of the buffer and therefore also the maximum
+and *nitems* is the size of the buffer and therefore also the maximum
 amount of data we can return to libcurl in this call. The *userp* pointer
 is the custom pointer we set to point to a struct of ours to pass private data
 between the application and the callback.