diff --git a/docs/templates.txt b/docs/templates.txt
index 3b2c03766b5..3a557c14765 100644
--- a/docs/templates.txt
+++ b/docs/templates.txt
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ To avoid this problem, you have two options:
 
     * One, you can make sure to run each untrusted variable through the
       ``escape`` filter (documented below), which converts potentially harmful
-      HTML characters to unharmful ones. This was default the default solution
+      HTML characters to unharmful ones. This was the default solution
       in Django for its first few years, but the problem is that it puts the
       onus on *you*, the developer / template author, to ensure you're escaping
       everything. It's easy to forget to escape data.