diff --git a/contrib/torify.1 b/contrib/torify.1
index 0bb6c1b4e8..7f77da770b 100644
--- a/contrib/torify.1
+++ b/contrib/torify.1
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ torify \- wrapper for tsocks and tor
 \fBtorify\fR is a simple wrapper that calls tsocks with a tor specific
 configuration file.
 
-Tsocks itself is wrapper between the tsocks library and the application what
-you would like to run socksified.
+Tsocks itself is a wrapper between the tsocks library and the application
+that you would like to run socksified.
 
-Please note that since tsocks uses LD_PRELOAD this cannot be applied to suid
-binaries.
+Please note that since tsocks uses LD_PRELOAD, torify cannot be applied
+to suid binaries.
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR tor (1),