diff --git a/man7/mq_overview.7 b/man7/mq_overview.7
index dc115a8ef..4a6138272 100644
--- a/man7/mq_overview.7
+++ b/man7/mq_overview.7
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ Message priorities range from 0 (low) to
 (high).
 On Linux,
 .I sysconf(_SC_MQ_PRIO_MAX)
-returns 32768, but POSIX.1-2001 only requires
-an implementation to support priorities in the range 0 to 31;
-some implementations only provide this range.
+returns 32768, but POSIX.1-2001 requires only that
+an implementation support at least priorities in the range 0 to 31;
+some implementations provide only this range.
 .PP
 The remainder of this section describes some specific details
 of the Linux implementation of POSIX message queues.