diff -r 0d2ac0299020 -r db33555eafea mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Jan 20 23:05:14 2012 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Jan 20 15:25:39 2012 -0600
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@
     ('r', 'rev', '', _('revision'), _('REV')),
     ('d', 'delete', False, _('delete a given bookmark')),
     ('m', 'rename', '', _('rename a given bookmark'), _('NAME')),
-    ('i', 'inactive', False, _('mark a bookmark active'))],
+    ('i', 'inactive', False, _('mark a bookmark inactive'))],
     _('hg bookmarks [-f] [-d] [-i] [-m NAME] [-r REV] [NAME]'))
 def bookmark(ui, repo, mark=None, rev=None, force=False, delete=False,
              rename=None, inactive=False):