diff --git a/man2/readv.2 b/man2/readv.2
index bd0a6cd2f..c066c73a5 100644
--- a/man2/readv.2
+++ b/man2/readv.2
@@ -141,9 +141,7 @@ are atomic: the data written by
 .\" Regarding atomicity, see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10596
 .BR writev ()
 is written as a single block that is not intermingled with output
-from writes in other processes (but see
-.BR pipe (7)
-for an exception);
+from writes in other processes;
 analogously,
 .BR readv ()
 is guaranteed to read a contiguous block of data from the file,
diff --git a/man7/pipe.7 b/man7/pipe.7
index c3210320c..d79768fb6 100644
--- a/man7/pipe.7
+++ b/man7/pipe.7
@@ -244,9 +244,7 @@ and
 limits; see BUGS.
 .\"
 .SS PIPE_BUF
-POSIX.1 says that
-.BR write (2)s
-of less than
+POSIX.1 says that writes of less than
 .B PIPE_BUF
 bytes must be atomic: the output data is written to the pipe as a
 contiguous sequence.