diff --git a/src/WordLangTuple.h b/src/WordLangTuple.h
index 9e1aecd105..51a72bf310 100644
--- a/src/WordLangTuple.h
+++ b/src/WordLangTuple.h
@@ -30,10 +30,8 @@ public:
 	WordLangTuple() {}
 
 	WordLangTuple(docstring const & w, Language * l)
-		: word_(w)
-	{
-		lang_ = l;
-	}
+		: word_(w), lang_(l)
+	{}
 
 	/// return the word
 	docstring const & word() const {