diff --git a/man2/msgop.2 b/man2/msgop.2
index e888dc8be..9cbb19d79 100644
--- a/man2/msgop.2
+++ b/man2/msgop.2
@@ -517,10 +517,10 @@ by a
 .BR msgctl (2)
 system call.
 .PP
-The implementation has no intrinsic limits for the system wide maximum
+The implementation has no intrinsic system-wide limits on the
 number of message headers
 .RB ( MSGTQL )
-and for the system wide maximum size in bytes of the message pool
+and the number of bytes in the message pool
 .RB ( MSGPOOL ).
 .SH BUGS
 In Linux 3.13 and earlier,