diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index ba8a3caa9..686a941be 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ type config struct {
 	BlockPrioritySize  uint32        `long:"blockprioritysize" description:"Size in bytes for high-priority/low-fee transactions when creating a block"`
 	GetWorkKeys        []string      `long:"getworkkey" description:"DEPRECATED -- Use the --miningaddr option instead"`
 	AddrIndex          bool          `long:"addrindex" description:"Build and maintain a full address index. Currently only supported by leveldb."`
-	DropAddrIndex      bool          `long:"dropaddrindex" description:"Deletes the address-based transaction index from the database on start up, and the exits."`
+	DropAddrIndex      bool          `long:"dropaddrindex" description:"Deletes the address-based transaction index from the database on start up, and then exits."`
 	NoPeerBloomFilters bool          `long:"nopeerbloomfilters" description:"Disable bloom filtering support."`
 	SigCacheMaxSize    uint          `long:"sigcachemaxsize" description:"The maximum number of entries in the signature verification cache."`
 	onionlookup        func(string) ([]net.IP, error)