diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldbm.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldbm.5
index 40eec21aee..8faa44e7da 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldbm.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldbm.5
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ETCDIR/slapd.conf
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The LDBM backend to
 .BR slapd (8)
-is a database which uses one of BerkelyDB, Gnu DBM, MDBM or NDBM to
+is a database which uses one of BerkeleyDB, GNU DBM, MDBM or NDBM to
 store data.
 It makes extensive use of indexing and caching to speed data access.
 .SH CONFIGURATION
diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-sql.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-sql.5
index be64585863..73d13ad6f4 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-sql.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-sql.5
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ slapd-sql \- SQL backend to slapd
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 ETCDIR/slapd.conf
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The primary purpose of this backend (8) to
+The primary purpose of this
 .BR slapd (8)
-is to PRESENT information stored in some RDBMS as an LDAP subtree
+backend is to PRESENT information stored in some RDBMS as an LDAP subtree
 without any programming (some SQL and maybe stored procedures can't be
 considered programming, anyway ;).
 .LP