regex
diff --git a/codespell_lib/_codespell.py b/codespell_lib/_codespell.py
index f6e8580..e5e59fd 100755
--- a/codespell_lib/_codespell.py
+++ b/codespell_lib/_codespell.py
@@ -283,9 +283,9 @@
action='store', type=str,
help='regular expression which is used to find '
'patterns to ignore by treating as whitespace. '
- 'When writing regexes, consider ensuring there '
- 'are boundary non-word chars, e.g., '
- '"\\bmatch\\b". Defaults to empty/disabled.')
+ 'When writing regular expressions, consider '
+ 'ensuring there are boundary non-word chars, '
+ 'e.g., "\\bmatch\\b". Defaults to empty/disabled.')
parser.add_argument('-I', '--ignore-words',
action='append', metavar='FILE',
help='file that contains words which will be ignored '
