diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.monitoring.rst b/Doc/library/sys.monitoring.rst
index 918dba9e02810c..0674074b8c0df6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.monitoring.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.monitoring.rst
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ More events may be added in the future.
 
 These events are attributes of the :mod:`!sys.monitoring.events` namespace.
 Each event is represented as a power-of-2 integer constant.
-To define a set of events, simply bitwise or the individual events together.
+To define a set of events, simply bitwise OR the individual events together.
 For example, to specify both :monitoring-event:`PY_RETURN` and :monitoring-event:`PY_START`
 events, use the expression ``PY_RETURN | PY_START``.