diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/load_error.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/load_error.rb
index 81eaee8ca3cc4..768b980f21721 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/load_error.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/load_error.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def path
     end
   end
 
-  # Returns <tt>true</tt> if the given path name (except perhaps for the ".rb"
+  # Returns true if the given path name (except perhaps for the ".rb"
   # extension) is the missing file which caused the exception to be raised.
   def is_missing?(location)
     location.sub(/\.rb$/, '') == path.sub(/\.rb$/, '')