diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml
index d253ea8d39..42090ba254 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml
@@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ $target - head/$source:$P,$Q,$R</screen>
 	      all paths are relative to the top of the svn repository.
 	      for more information on the directory layout, see
 	      <xref linkend="subversion-primer-base-layout">.</para>
-            <para>The first step is to check the existing mergeinfo.</para>
+            <para>The first step is to inspect the existing mergeinfo.</para>
 
 	    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn propget svn:mergeinfo -R stable/9/share/man/man4</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -1466,9 +1466,9 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 'stable/9/share/man/man4':
  U   stable/9/share/man/man4</screen>
 
-	    <para>Check that the merge info is still ok; the revision
-	      number of the merged revision should be added.  Once this
-	      is checked, the only thing left is the actual commit.</para>
+	    <para>Check that the revision number of the merged revision
+	      has been added.  Once this is verified, the only thing left
+	      is the actual commit.</para>
             
             <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn commit stable/9/share/man/man4</userinput></screen>
 	  </sect5>