diff --git a/sbin/pppoectl/pppoectl.8 b/sbin/pppoectl/pppoectl.8
index 61a560444b4a..65a25e8299bc 100644
--- a/sbin/pppoectl/pppoectl.8
+++ b/sbin/pppoectl/pppoectl.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: pppoectl.8,v 1.27 2010/03/31 04:17:23 joerg Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: pppoectl.8,v 1.28 2011/10/12 10:33:14 martin Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (C) 1997 by Joerg Wunsch, Dresden
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" From: spppcontrol.1,v 1.1.1.1 1997/10/11 11:30:30 joerg Exp
 .\"
-.\" $Id: pppoectl.8,v 1.27 2010/03/31 04:17:23 joerg Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppoectl.8,v 1.28 2011/10/12 10:33:14 martin Exp $
 .\"
 .\" last edit-date: [Thu Aug 31 10:47:33 2000]
 .\"
@@ -63,11 +63,11 @@
 .Ar ifname
 .Op Ar ...
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
-There are two basic modes of operation: configuring security related
+There are two basic modes of operation: configuring security-related
 parameters and attaching a PPPoE interface to its ethernet interface,
 optionally passing in additional parameters for the PPPoE encapsulation.
 .Pp
-The later usage is indicated by the presence of the
+The latter usage is indicated by the presence of the
 .Fl e
 option, which takes the name of the ethernet interface as its argument.
 .Pp