diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.rst
index df6c131489726..d8a204abcd93e 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.rst
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ Other Enhancements
 - :meth:`read_excel()` now accepts ``usecols`` as a list of column names or callable (:issue:`18273`)
 - :meth:`MultiIndex.to_flat_index` has been added to flatten multiple levels into a single-level :class:`Index` object.
 - :meth:`DataFrame.to_stata` and :class:`pandas.io.stata.StataWriter117` can write mixed sting columns to Stata strl format (:issue:`23633`)
-- :meth:`DataFrame.between_time` and :meth:`DataFrame.at_time` have gained the an ``axis`` parameter (:issue:`8839`)
+- :meth:`DataFrame.between_time` and :meth:`DataFrame.at_time` have gained the ``axis`` parameter (:issue:`8839`)
 - The ``scatter_matrix``, ``andrews_curves``, ``parallel_coordinates``, ``lag_plot``, ``autocorrelation_plot``, ``bootstrap_plot``, and ``radviz`` plots from the ``pandas.plotting`` module are now accessible from calling :meth:`DataFrame.plot` (:issue:`11978`)
 - :class:`IntervalIndex` has gained the :attr:`~IntervalIndex.is_overlapping` attribute to indicate if the ``IntervalIndex`` contains any overlapping intervals (:issue:`23309`)