diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README
index d3e2f2be8b..2b0085483e 100644
--- a/contrib/README
+++ b/contrib/README
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ string -
 	by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
 
 tablefunc -
-	Examples of tables returning functions
+	Examples of functions returning tables
 	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
 
 tips/apache_logging -