diff --git a/README b/README
index 1d2357be1d..405c18bac0 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 This is the buildsystem for the LEDE Linux distribution.
 
-Please use "make menuconfig" to configure your appreciated
+Please use "make menuconfig" to choose your preferred
 configuration for the toolchain and firmware.
 
 You need to have installed gcc, binutils, bzip2, flex, python, perl, make,