diff --git a/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmTextBase.cs b/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmTextBase.cs
index b148f391..ee3d84f8 100644
--- a/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmTextBase.cs
+++ b/src/SIL.Machine/Corpora/UsfmTextBase.cs
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ protected override IEnumerable<TextRow> GetVersesInDocOrder()
             catch (Exception ex)
             {
                 var sb = new StringBuilder();
-                sb.Append($"An error occurred while tokenizing the text '{Id}`");
+                sb.Append($"An error occurred while tokenizing the text '{Id}'");
                 if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Project))
                     sb.Append($" in project '{Project}'");
                 sb.Append($". Error: '{ex.Message}'");
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ protected override IEnumerable<TextRow> GetVersesInDocOrder()
             catch (Exception ex)
             {
                 var sb = new StringBuilder();
-                sb.Append($"An error occurred while parsing the text '{Id}`");
+                sb.Append($"An error occurred while parsing the text '{Id}'");
                 if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Project))
                     sb.Append($" in project '{Project}'");
                 sb.Append($". Verse: {parser.State.VerseRef}, line: {parser.State.LineNumber}, ");