diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
index 30d7128873..8b9322febe 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
@@ -257,13 +257,13 @@
     <para>In Subversion, URLs are used to designate a repository,
       taking the form of <literal>protocol://hostname/path</literal>.
       Mirrors may support different protocols as specified below.  The
-      first component of the path is the FreeBSD repository to access.
+      first component of the path is the &os; repository to access.
       There are three different repositories, <literal>base</literal>
-      for the &os; Base system, <literal>ports</literal> for the
-      FreeBSD Ports Collection, and <literal>doc</literal> for the
-      FreeBSD Documentation.  For example, the URL
+      for the &os; base system source code, <literal>ports</literal>
+      for the Ports Collection, and <literal>doc</literal> for
+      documentation.  For example, the URL
       <literal>svn://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/</literal>
-      specifies the main branch of the &os; ports repository on the
+      specifies the main branch of the ports repository on the
       <hostid role="fqdn">svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org</hostid> mirror,
       using the svn protocol.</para>