Better English, I hope.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index a3c94459e8e..21b51b9148e 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -584,10 +584,10 @@ created from Cweb source files.  When Etags tags the generated file, it
 writes tags pointing to the source file.
 
 *** New option --parse-stdin=FILE
-This is mostly useful for automatic call of etags from programs.  The
-option may be given (only once) in place of a file name.  Etags will
-read from standard input and produce tags marking them as belonging to
-the file FILE.
+This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs.  It may
+be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.  Etags
+will read from standard input and produce tags marking them as belonging
+to the file FILE.
 
 +++
 ** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
diff --git a/etc/etags.1 b/etc/etags.1
index d97da6be116..26381e3b682 100644
--- a/etc/etags.1
+++ b/etc/etags.1
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Only tag packages in Ada files.
 .TP
 \fB\-\-parse\-stdin=\fIfile\fP
 May be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.
-\fBetags\fP will read from standard input and produce tags marking them
+\fBetags\fP will read from standard input and mark the produced tags
 as belonging to the file \fBFILE\fP.
 .TP
 \fB\-o\fP \fItagfile\fP, \fB\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP