diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index d9b72a9a942..ab4eb478efb 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Ellipsis
    related to mathematical numbers, but subject to the limitations of numerical
    representation in computers.
 
-   The string representations of the Numeric classes, computed by
+   The string representations of the numeric classes, computed by
    :meth:`__repr__` and :meth:`__str__`, have the following
    properties: