diff --git a/src/core/main.c b/src/core/main.c
index 54ef7d182af..2f36d752bca 100644
--- a/src/core/main.c
+++ b/src/core/main.c
@@ -1198,8 +1198,8 @@ static void bump_file_max_and_nr_open(void) {
 #endif
 
 #if BUMP_PROC_SYS_FS_FILE_MAX
-        /* The maximum the kernel allows for this since 5.2 is LONG_MAX, use that. (Previously thing where
-         * different but the operation would fail silently.) */
+        /* The maximum the kernel allows for this since 5.2 is LONG_MAX, use that. (Previously things were
+         * different, but the operation would fail silently.) */
         r = sysctl_writef("fs/file-max", "%li\n", LONG_MAX);
         if (r < 0)
                 log_full_errno(IN_SET(r, -EROFS, -EPERM, -EACCES) ? LOG_DEBUG : LOG_WARNING, r, "Failed to bump fs.file-max, ignoring: %m");