diff --git a/nltk/test/corpus.doctest b/nltk/test/corpus.doctest
index 9f283d2c0d..533970aff4 100644
--- a/nltk/test/corpus.doctest
+++ b/nltk/test/corpus.doctest
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ If the reader methods are called without any arguments, they will
 typically load all documents in the corpus.
 
     >>> len(inaugural.words())
-    149797
+    152901
 
 If a corpus contains a README file, it can be accessed with a ``readme()`` method: