diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
index 2816dbc888..fabbf37962 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ options          MATH_EMULATE      #Support for x87 emulation</programlisting>
 
     <note><para>In FreeBSD 5.0, math emulation is disabled by default,
       as older CPUs that do not have native floating point math support
-      a far less common, and in many cases not supported by the native
+      are far less common, and in many cases not supported by the native
       FreeBSD kernel without other additional options.</para></note>
 
     <programlisting>options          INET          #InterNETworking</programlisting>
@@ -734,8 +734,8 @@ options          CD9660_ROOT  #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required</programli
 
     <programlisting>options          PSEUDOFS     #Pseudo-filesystem framework</programlisting>
 
-    <para><literal>PSEUDOFS</literal> is not available in FreeBSD 4.x.
-      Unlike in FreeBSD 4.x, new installs of FreeBSD 5.0 will not mount
+    <para><literal>PSEUDOFS</literal> is not available in FreeBSD 4.X.
+      Unlike in FreeBSD 4.X, new installs of FreeBSD 5.0 will not mount
       the process file system by default.</para>
 
     <programlisting>options          COMPAT_43    #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]</programlisting>
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ options          CD9660_ROOT  #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required</programli
       that use older system call interfaces.  It is recommended that
       this option be used on all i386 and alpha systems that may
       run older applications; platforms that gained support only in
-      5.0, such as ia64 and sparc64, do not require this options.</para>
+      5.0, such as ia64 and sparc64, do not require this option.</para>
 
     <programlisting>options          SCSI_DELAY=15000    #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI</programlisting>