diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 4ba914f9c..5c1e64d71 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -2009,7 +2009,7 @@ When the value in this file is 0, Ctrl-Alt-Del is trapped and
 sent to the
 .BR init (8)
 program to handle a graceful restart.
-When the value is > 0, Linux's reaction to a Vulcan
+When the value is greater than zero, Linux's reaction to a Vulcan
 Nerve Pinch (tm) will be an immediate reboot, without even
 syncing its dirty buffers.
 Note: when a program (like dosemu) has the keyboard in "raw"
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index a50f8d0b1..8b623e854 100644
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ CPU.
 .TP
 .B "'panic=N'"
 By default the kernel will not reboot after a panic, but this option
-will cause a kernel reboot after N seconds (if N > 0).
+will cause a kernel reboot after N seconds (if N is greater than zero 0).
 This panic timeout can also be set by "echo N > /proc/sys/kernel/panic".
 .TP
 .B "'reboot=[warm|cold][,[bios|hard]]'"
diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
index 8df18119f..c312effdf 100644
--- a/man7/utf-8.7
+++ b/man7/utf-8.7
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ and
 *
 All
 .B UCS
-characters > 0x7f are encoded as a multi-byte sequence
+characters greater than 0x7f are encoded as a multi-byte sequence
 consisting only of bytes in the range 0x80 to 0xfd, so no ASCII
 byte can appear as part of another character and there are no
 problems with, for example,  \(aq\\0\(aq or \(aq/\(aq.