diff --git a/doc/mkvmerge.1 b/doc/mkvmerge.1
index 5ae6f63c8..4fa6ec2a3 100644
--- a/doc/mkvmerge.1
+++ b/doc/mkvmerge.1
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ Sets the general title for the output file, e.g. the movie name.
 Read chapter information from the \fIfile\fR. See the section about chapters
 below for details.
 .TP
-\fB\-\-global\-chapters\fR <\fIfile\fR>
-Read global chapters from the XML \fIfile\fR. See the section about tags
+\fB\-\-global\-tags\fR <\fIfile\fR>
+Read global tags from the XML \fIfile\fR. See the section about tags
 below for details.
 
 .LP