diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 71b8dc35..535d1fc5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2010-04-02  James Youngman  <jay@gnu.org>
 
+	Enable syntax checker sc_the_the, detecting doubled 'the'.
+	* cfg.mk (false_positives): Enable syntax checker sc_the_the
+	* build-aux/src-sniff.py (checkers): Avoid false positive with
+	sc_the_the.
+
 	Avoid false positives for sc_prohibit_atoi_atof.
 	* find/util.c (set_option_defaults): Avoid false positive with
 	sc_prohibit_atoi_atof.
diff --git a/build-aux/src-sniff.py b/build-aux/src-sniff.py
index 9d26f0b5..cfd98c09 100644
--- a/build-aux/src-sniff.py
+++ b/build-aux/src-sniff.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ checkers = [
     [r'HAVE''_CONFIG_H', "Avoid checking HAVE_CONFIG_H"],
     #   [r'HAVE_FCNTL_H', "Avoid checking HAVE_FCNTL_H"],
     [r'O_NDELAY', "Avoid using O_NDELAY"],
-    [r'the *the', "'the the' is probably not deliberate"],
+    [r'the *the', "'the"+" the' is probably not deliberate"],
     [r'(?<!\w)error \([^_"]*[^_]"[^"]*[a-z]{3}', "untranslated error message"],
     [r'^# *if\s+defined *\(', "useless parentheses in '#if defined'"],
 
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index b43b3e5a..47f49e0b 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ skip_defer = sc_program_name \
 # False positives I don't have a workaround for yet.
 # sc_space_tab: several .xo test output files contain this sequence
 #               for testing xargs's handling of white space.
-false_positives = sc_obsolete_symbols sc_prohibit_cvs_keyword sc_the_the \
+false_positives = sc_obsolete_symbols sc_prohibit_cvs_keyword \
 	sc_two_space_separator_in_usage \
 	sc_space_tab