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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/pw_dup.3 b/lib/libc/gen/pw_dup.3
index 562568ecd06..bc9f97002ac 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/pw_dup.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/pw_dup.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pw_dup.3,v 1.5 2003/06/17 21:56:23 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pw_dup.3,v 1.6 2005/07/22 03:16:58 jaredy Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
.\"
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ This is useful as subsequent calls to
.Fn getpwnam ,
and
.Fn getpwuid
-will overwrite the data from previous calls.
+will overwrite the data they returned from previous calls.
.Pp
The returned pointer may be deallocated by a single call to
.Xr free 3 .
Since
.Fn pw_dup
-allocates space for the copy in one chunk it is not necessary to free
+allocates space for the copy in one chunk, it is not necessary to free
the individual strings contained in the returned struct passwd.
.Pp
If insufficient memory is available,