diff --git a/bip-0077.md b/bip-0077.md
index 07852f2b..25f73b26 100644
--- a/bip-0077.md
+++ b/bip-0077.md
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ receiver shares encoded in the URI.
 Instead of defining new Bitcoin URI parameters, the session-specific
 parameters are encoded in the [
 fragment](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.5)
-of the the mailbox endpoint URL.
+of the mailbox endpoint URL.
 
 The `#` fragment separator character must be [RFC 3986
 percent-encoded](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-2.1)