diff --git a/contrib/btree_gist/README.btree_gist b/contrib/btree_gist/README.btree_gist
index 46831299d65b22a0811e390cbfd4fdc1f339aeed..f54a300babe36a4fa36d59b1fe1632132de7929a 100644
--- a/contrib/btree_gist/README.btree_gist
+++ b/contrib/btree_gist/README.btree_gist
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-This is B-Tree implementation using GiST for int2, int4, int8, float4, float8
-timestamp with/without time zone, time with/without time zone, date,
-interval, oid, money and macaddr, char, varchar/text, bytea, numeric,
-bit, varbit, inet/cidr types.
+This is a B-Tree implementation using GiST that supports the int2, int4,
+int8, float4, float8 timestamp with/without time zone, time
+with/without time zone, date, interval, oid, money, macaddr, char,
+varchar/text, bytea, numeric, bit, varbit and inet/cidr types.
 
 All work was done by Teodor Sigaev (teodor@stack.net) , Oleg Bartunov
 (oleg@sai.msu.su), Janko Richter (jankorichter@yahoo.de).
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ NEWS:
      Feb  5, 2003 - btree_gist now support int2, int8, float4, float8
      
 NOTICE:
-     This version will works only with postgresql version 7.4 and above
-     because of changes in interface of function calling and in system
-     tables.
+     This version will only work with PostgreSQL version 7.4 and above
+     because of changes in the system catalogs and the function call
+     interface.
      
      If you want to index varchar attributes, you have to index using
      the function text(<varchar>):
diff --git a/contrib/rtree_gist/README.rtree_gist b/contrib/rtree_gist/README.rtree_gist
index bcc6a8ed662250874e04ba289544c8acda5510ee..27d498dff9bb7394324c3bcd785111a0d3a0afeb 100644
--- a/contrib/rtree_gist/README.rtree_gist
+++ b/contrib/rtree_gist/README.rtree_gist
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is R-Tree implementation using GiST.
+This is a R-Tree implementation using GiST.
 Code (for PG95) are taken from http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/gist/pggist/
 and changed according to new version of GiST (7.1 and above)
 
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ CHANGES:
      2. gist_poly_ops is lossy
      3. NULLs support
      4. works with multi-key GiST
-     
+
 NOTICE:
-     This version will works only with postgresql version 7.1 and above
-     because of changes in interface of function calling.
+     This version will only work with PostgreSQL version 7.1 and above
+     because of changes in the function call interface.
 
 INSTALLATION: