diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 3986276467..10242ecc31 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
             <quote>at no cost</quote>, the other meaning <quote>you can do
             whatever you like</quote>.  Apart from one or two things you
             <emphasis>cannot</emphasis> do with the FreeBSD code, for
-            example pretending you wrote it, you really can do whatever you
+            example pretending you wrote it, you can really do whatever you
             like with it.</para>
         </answer>
       </qandaentry>
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
 
           <para>Briefly, <emphasis>-STABLE</emphasis> is aimed
             at the ISP, corporate user, or any user who wants stability and a
-            low change count over the wizzy new features of the latest
+            minimal number of changes compared to the new (and possibly unstable) features of the latest
             <emphasis>-CURRENT</emphasis> snapshot.  Releases can come
             from either branch, but <emphasis>-CURRENT</emphasis>
             should only be used if you are prepared for its increased volatility (relative to 
@@ -306,8 +306,8 @@
           <para>Every day, <ulink
             URL="../../../../releases/snapshots.html">snapshot
             </ulink> releases are made based on the current state of the
-            -CURRENT and -STABLE branches. Nowadays, distributions of the
-            occasional snapshot are now being made available. The goals
+            -CURRENT and -STABLE branches.  Distributions of the
+            occasional snapshot are made available. The goals
             behind each snapshot release are:</para>
 
           <itemizedlist>
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
             </listitem>
 
             <listitem>
-              <para>To ensure that any new features in need of testing
+              <para>To ensure that all new features and fixes in need of testing
                 have the greatest possible number of potential
                 testers.</para>
             </listitem>
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@
             3-STABLE snapshots are not being produced at the time of
             this writing (May 2000).</para>
 
-          <para>Snapshots are generated, on the average, once a day for
+          <para>Snapshots are generated, on the average, daily for
             all actively developed branches.</para>
         </answer>
       </qandaentry>
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
             that the addition of new features does not compromise the
             stability of the release.
             Many users regard this caution as one of the best
-            things about FreeBSD, although 
+            things about FreeBSD, even though
             waiting for all the latest goodies to reach -STABLE
             can be a little frustrating.</para>
 
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@
 	    engineering</ulink> pages on the FreeBSD Web site.</para>
 
           <para>For people who need or want a little more excitement,
-            binary snapshots are made every day as discussed above.</para>
+            binary snapshots are made daily as discussed above.</para>
          </answer>
       </qandaentry>
 
@@ -504,13 +504,13 @@
             <listitem>
               <para><ulink
                 URL="ftp://releng4.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">4.X
-                snapshots</ulink> are usually made once a day.</para>
+                snapshots</ulink> are usually made daily.</para>
             </listitem>
 
             <listitem>
               <para><ulink
                 URL="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">
-                5.0 Snapshot</ulink> releases are made once a day for the
+                5.0 Snapshot</ulink> releases are made daily for the
                 <link linkend="current">-CURRENT</link> branch, these being
                 of service purely to bleeding-edge testers and
                 developers.</para>
@@ -3898,7 +3898,7 @@ quit</programlisting>
         </question>
 
         <answer>
-          <para>This can be caused by various hardware and/or software
+          <para>This can be caused by various hardware or software
             ailments relating to interrupts. It may be due to bugs but can
             also happen by nature of certain devices. Running TCP/IP over
             the parallel port using a large MTU is one good way to provoke
@@ -5719,7 +5719,7 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
           <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/dev/rda0a of=/mnt/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1</userinput></screen>
 
           <para>Reboot into DOS or NT.  NTFS users copy the
-            <filename>bootsect.bsd</filename> and/or the
+            <filename>bootsect.bsd</filename> or the
             <filename>bootsect.lnx</filename> file from the floppy to
             <filename>C:\</filename>. Modify the attributes (permissions)
             on <filename>boot.ini</filename> with:</para>
@@ -11096,7 +11096,7 @@ raisechar=^^</programlisting>
             usefulness was stretched more and more with each new feature.
             In addition, people wanted to dynamically load things at run
             time, or to junk parts of their program after the init code had
-            run to save in core memory and/or swap space. Languages became
+            run to save in core memory and swap space. Languages became
             more sophisticated and people wanted code called before main
             automatically. Lots of hacks were done to the
             <filename>a.out</filename> format to allow all of these things