diff --git a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/handler/MatchableHandlerMapping.java b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/handler/MatchableHandlerMapping.java
index eab017a4ac..85ef3ec17d 100644
--- a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/handler/MatchableHandlerMapping.java
+++ b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/handler/MatchableHandlerMapping.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2020 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2021 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public interface MatchableHandlerMapping extends HandlerMapping {
 	/**
 	 * Determine whether the request matches the given pattern. Use this method
 	 * when {@link #getPatternParser()} returns {@code null} which means that the
-	 * {@code HandlerMapping} is uses String pattern matching.
+	 * {@code HandlerMapping} is using String pattern matching.
 	 * @param request the current request
 	 * @param pattern the pattern to match
 	 * @return the result from request matching, or {@code null} if none