diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml
index 7a6d863fe3..66ee7242c6 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.xml
@@ -282,15 +282,13 @@
     <sect2>
       <title>Acronyms</title>
 
-      <para>Acronyms should be spelled out the first time
+      <para>Acronyms should be defined the first time
 	they appear in a document, as in: <quote>Network Time Protocol
 	(<acronym>NTP</acronym>)</quote>.
 	After the acronym has been defined, use
 	the acronym alone unless it makes more
-	sense contextually to use the whole term.  Usually, acronyms
-	are defined only one per document.  But they can also be
-	defined the first time they appear in a
-	chapter.</para>
+	sense contextually to use the whole term.  Acronyms are usually
+	defined only once per chapter or per document.</para>
 
       <para>All acronyms should be enclosed in
 	<sgmltag>acronym</sgmltag> tags.</para>