diff --git a/packages/kbn-apm-config-loader/README.md b/packages/kbn-apm-config-loader/README.md
index e5280cd36bab9..51623dc745f2c 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-apm-config-loader/README.md
+++ b/packages/kbn-apm-config-loader/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This module is only meant to be used by the APM instrumentation script (`src/apm
 to load the required configuration options from the `kibana.yaml` configuration file with
 default values.
 
-### Why can't just use @kbn-config?
+### Why not just use @kbn-config?
 
 `@kbn/config` is the recommended way to load and read the kibana configuration file,
 however in the specific case of APM, we want to only need the minimal dependencies