diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index 72947de88..5d752277d 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -1789,7 +1789,7 @@ create_intermediate_upgrade_verification_script() {
 
                     return 0
                 else
-                    echo "One or more heavynodes is not at the expected Elasticsearch version $EXPECTED_ES_VERSION. Rechecking in $delay seconds. Attempt $((retry_count + 1)) of $retries."
+                    echo "One or more heavynodes are not at the expected Elasticsearch version $EXPECTED_ES_VERSION. Rechecking in $delay seconds. Attempt $((retry_count + 1)) of $retries."
                     ((retry_count++))
                     sleep $delay