diff --git a/_test/cases/inc/DifferenceEngine.test.php b/_test/cases/inc/DifferenceEngine.test.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..294f0e6e332f2084aa859adf70f320e786fb0e87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_test/cases/inc/DifferenceEngine.test.php
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?php
+require_once DOKU_INC.'inc/DifferenceEngine.php';
+
+class differenceengine_test extends UnitTestCase {
+
+    function test_white_between_words(){
+        // From FS#2161
+        global $lang;
+
+        $df = new Diff(explode("\n","example"),
+                       explode("\n","example example2"));
+
+        $idf = new InlineDiffFormatter();
+        $tdf = new TableDiffFormatter();
+
+        $this->assertEqual($idf->format($df), '<tr><td colspan="4" class="diff-blockheader">@@ ' . $lang['line'] .
+                                              ' -1 +1 @@&nbsp;<span class="diff-deletedline"><del>' . $lang['deleted'] .
+                                              '</del></span>&nbsp;<span class="diff-addedline">' . $lang['created'] .
+                                              '</span></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4">example&nbsp;<span class="diff-addedline">example2</span></td></tr>
+');
+        $this->assertEqual($tdf->format($df),
+                           '<tr><td class="diff-blockheader" colspan="2">' . $lang['line'] . ' 1:</td>
+&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<td class="diff-blockheader" colspan="2">' . $lang['line'] . ' 1:</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>-</td><td class="diff-deletedline">example</td><td>+</td><td class="diff-addedline">example&nbsp;<strong>example2</strong></td></tr>
+');
+    }
+}
+//Setup VIM: ex: et ts=4 :
diff --git a/inc/DifferenceEngine.php b/inc/DifferenceEngine.php
index 36322d22278674f683b1703c680d0cec2c879a46..906a17b2d34d48915e91aea01f5a009051e82f13 100644
--- a/inc/DifferenceEngine.php
+++ b/inc/DifferenceEngine.php
@@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ class InlineWordLevelDiff extends MappedDiff {
         $orig = new _HWLDF_WordAccumulator;
         foreach ($this->edits as $edit) {
             if ($edit->type == 'copy')
-                $orig->addWords($edit->orig);
+                $orig->addWords($edit->closing);
             elseif ($edit->type == 'change'){
                 $orig->addWords($edit->orig, 'del');
                 $orig->addWords($edit->closing, 'add');