Index: kernel/Makefile
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--- kernel/Makefile	(revision 1314e3bcb45f4d382dc343b61905c7860d722189)
+++ kernel/Makefile	(revision bcfd58676e215cdeeabe9fe0f543c766876bf7f1)
@@ -72,5 +72,5 @@
 ## The at-sign
 #
-# THE $(ATSIGN) variable holds the ASCII character representing the at-sign
+# The $(ATSIGN) variable holds the ASCII character representing the at-sign
 # ('@') used in various $(AS) constructs (e.g. @progbits). On architectures that
 # don't use '@' for starting a comment, $(ATSIGN) is merely '@'. However, on