diff --git a/src/sbbs3/wordwrap.c b/src/sbbs3/wordwrap.c
index cb003e1244f389dc1e6cc025e73c3b4a04f8de7c..a9ff473945c157c34571d153894d7e16659c7858 100644
--- a/src/sbbs3/wordwrap.c
+++ b/src/sbbs3/wordwrap.c
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ static char *wrap_paragraphs(struct paragraph *paragraph, int outlen, BOOL handl
 				ws_len = get_ws_len(inp, outcol);
 				word_len = get_word_len(inp+ws_len.bytes, -1);
 				// Do we need to chop a long word?
-				if (word_len.len > (outlen - prefix_cols)))
+				if (word_len.len > (outlen - prefix_cols))
 					word_len = get_word_len(inp + ws_len.bytes, outlen - ws_len.bytes - outcol);
 				if (outcol + ws_len.len + word_len.len > outlen) {
 					inp += ws_len.bytes;