diff --git a/share/dict/README b/share/dict/README
index 85dc0ca5b22..b8d61471a29 100644
--- a/share/dict/README
+++ b/share/dict/README
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Dictionaries for other languages, e.g. Afrikaans, American, Aussie,
 Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French,
 German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Polish,
 Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Yiddish, are available
-at ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists.
+at ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists.
 
 Country names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166.