diff --git a/docs/advanced/creating-custom-registries.md b/docs/advanced/creating-custom-registries.md
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@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Must return an object listing all tasks in the registry.
 
 ### Sharing Tasks
 
-To share common tasks with all your projects, you can expose an `init` method on the registry and it will receive the an instance of gulp as the only argument. You can then use `gulpInst.task(name, fn)` to register pre-defined tasks.
+To share common tasks with all your projects, you can expose an `init` method on the registry and it will receive an instance of gulp as the only argument. You can then use `gulpInst.task(name, fn)` to register pre-defined tasks.
 
 For example, you might want to share a `clean` task: