2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus-news.el b/doc/misc/gnus-news.el
index aa02c3110e1..339c219e51b 100644
--- a/doc/misc/gnus-news.el
+++ b/doc/misc/gnus-news.el
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
+\(at your option) any later version.
 
 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 885e2d5c97e..118bb715ec8 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -2818,7 +2818,7 @@ move the yanking point; just return the Nth kill forward."
   "Kill (\"cut\") text between point and mark.
 This deletes the text from the buffer and saves it in the kill ring.
 The command \\[yank] can retrieve it from there.
-\(If you want to kill and then yank immediately, use \\[kill-ring-save].)
+\(If you want to save the region without killing it, use \\[kill-ring-save].)
 
 If you want to append the killed region to the last killed text,
 use \\[append-next-kill] before \\[kill-region].