diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7
index f07577adf..ac1a16224 100644
--- a/man7/environ.7
+++ b/man7/environ.7
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" Modified Wed Jan 24 06:37:24 2001 by Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
 .\" Modified Thu Dec 13 23:53:27 2001 by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
 .\"
-.TH ENVIRON 7 2001-12-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ENVIRON 7 2009-07-25 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 environ \- user environment
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ environ \- user environment
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The variable
 .I environ
-points to an array of strings called the "environment".
+points to an array of pointers to strings called the "environment".
 (This variable must be declared in the user program,
 but is declared in the header file
 .I <unistd.h>
@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ was defined.)
 This array of strings is made available to the process by the
 .BR exec (3)
 call that started the process.
-By convention these strings
+
+By convention the strings in
+.I environ
 have the form "\fIname\fP\fB=\fP\fIvalue\fP".
 Common examples are:
 .TP