diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 68161ad9d..e1d250f85 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ Usage of oauth2_proxy:
   -set-xauthrequest: set X-Auth-Request-User and X-Auth-Request-Email response headers (useful in Nginx auth_request mode)
   -signature-key string: GAP-Signature request signature key (algorithm:secretkey)
   -skip-auth-preflight: will skip authentication for OPTIONS requests
-  -skip-auth-regex value: bypass authentication for requests path's that match (may be given multiple times)
+  -skip-auth-regex value: bypass authentication for requests with paths that match (may be given multiple times)
   -skip-auth-strip-headers: strip upstream request http headers that are normally set by this proxy, also for requests allowed by --skip-auth-regex (default true)
   -skip-oidc-discovery: Skip OIDC discovery (login-url, redeem-url and oidc-jwks-url must be configured)
   -skip-provider-button: will skip sign-in-page to directly reach the next step: oauth/start
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 246d1cfa2..631cac150 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func mainFlagSet() *flag.FlagSet {
 	flagSet.String("basic-auth-password", "", "the password to set when passing the HTTP Basic Auth header")
 	flagSet.Bool("pass-access-token", false, "pass OAuth access_token to upstream via X-Forwarded-Access-Token header")
 	flagSet.Bool("pass-host-header", true, "pass the request Host Header to upstream")
-	flagSet.Var(&skipAuthRegex, "skip-auth-regex", "bypass authentication for requests path's that match (may be given multiple times)")
+	flagSet.Var(&skipAuthRegex, "skip-auth-regex", "bypass authentication for requests with paths that match (may be given multiple times)")
 	flagSet.Bool("skip-auth-strip-headers", true, "strip upstream request http headers that are normally set by this proxy, also for requests allowed by --skip-auth-regex")
 	flagSet.Bool("skip-provider-button", false, "will skip sign-in-page to directly reach the next step: oauth/start")
 	flagSet.Bool("skip-auth-preflight", false, "will skip authentication for OPTIONS requests")