diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
index 5128afc6cb..4a5a27625d 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ device   loop          # Network loopback</programlisting>
 
     <programlisting>#makeoptions     DEBUG=-g          # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols</programlisting>
 
-    <para>The normal build process of the &os; does not include
+    <para>The normal build process of &os; does not include
       debugging information when building the kernel and strips most
       symbols after the resulting kernel is linked, to save some space
       at the install location.  If you are going to do tests of kernels
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n/chapter.sgml
index aa0e60d651..72ef9dc7fe 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n/chapter.sgml
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ keychange="<replaceable>fkey_number sequence</replaceable>"</programlisting>
 
       <programlisting>options		SC_MOUSE_CHAR=0x03</programlisting>
 
-      <para>For the FreeBSD versions 4.4 and up insert the following line
+      <para>For FreeBSD versions 4.4 and up insert the following line
 	into <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
 
       <programlisting>mousechar_start=3</programlisting>
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ keychange="<replaceable>fkey_number sequence</replaceable>"</programlisting>
 
 	    <programlisting>options		SC_MOUSE_CHAR=0x03</programlisting>
 
-	    <para>For the FreeBSD versions 4.4 and up insert the following
+	    <para>For FreeBSD versions 4.4 and up insert the following
 	      line into <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
 
 	    <programlisting>mousechar_start=3</programlisting>