diff --git a/Modules/gcmodule.c b/Modules/gcmodule.c
index ad13496b06deaf..a09c4856f1166d 100644
--- a/Modules/gcmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/gcmodule.c
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(gc__doc__,
 "set_debug() -- Set debugging flags.\n"
 "get_debug() -- Get debugging flags.\n"
 "set_threshold() -- Set the collection thresholds.\n"
-"get_threshold() -- Return the current the collection thresholds.\n"
+"get_threshold() -- Return the current collection thresholds.\n"
 "get_objects() -- Return a list of all objects tracked by the collector.\n"
 "is_tracked() -- Returns true if a given object is tracked.\n"
 "is_finalized() -- Returns true if a given object has been already finalized.\n"