diff --git a/peps/pep-0514.rst b/peps/pep-0514.rst
index 83c4116825e..763292fea10 100644
--- a/peps/pep-0514.rst
+++ b/peps/pep-0514.rst
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ registration has the higher priority.
 
 Tools that aim to select a single installed environment from all registered
 environments based on the Company-Tag pair, such as the ``py.exe`` launcher,
-should always select the environment registered in ``HKEY_CURRENT_USER`` when
-than the matching one in ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE``.
+should always select the environment registered in ``HKEY_CURRENT_USER``
+instead of the matching one in ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE``.
 
 Conflicts between ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python`` and
 ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Python`` should only occur when both