diff --git a/manual/template_lang.rst b/manual/template_lang.rst
index 0c2d445c5d..998c329238 100644
--- a/manual/template_lang.rst
+++ b/manual/template_lang.rst
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ The following functions are available in addition to those described in single-f
 
 		``first_matching_cmp(10,5,"small",10,"middle",15,"large","giant")`` 
 	
-	returns "middle". The same example with a first value of 16 returns "giant".
+	returns "large". The same example with a first value of 16 returns "giant".
     * ``first_non_empty(value, value, ...)`` -- returns the first value that is not empty. If all values are empty, then the empty value is returned. You can have as many values as you want.
     * ``format_date(x, date_format)`` -- format_date(val, format_string) -- format the value, which must be a date field, using the format_string, returning a string. The formatting codes are::
     
diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py b/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py
index 3ddecc4169..e3eac0255e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class BuiltinFirstMatchingCmp(BuiltinFormatterFunction):
             'the first comparison that succeeds. Returns else_result '
             'if no comparison succeeds. Example: '
             'first_matching_cmp(10,5,"small",10,"middle",15,"large","giant") '
-            'returns "middle". The same example with a first value of 16 returns "giant".')
+            'returns "large". The same example with a first value of 16 returns "giant".')
 
     def evaluate(self, formatter, kwargs, mi, locals, *args):
         if (len(args) % 2) != 0: