diff --git a/src/wp-includes/shortcodes.php b/src/wp-includes/shortcodes.php
index dcdabb294b..e276708449 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/shortcodes.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/shortcodes.php
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 /**
- * WordPress API for creating bbcode like tags or what WordPress calls
- * "shortcodes." The tag and attribute parsing or regular expression code is
+ * WordPress API for creating bbcode-like tags or what WordPress calls
+ * "shortcodes". The tag and attribute parsing or regular expression code is
  * based on the Textpattern tag parser.
  *
  * A few examples are below: