diff --git a/man/cado.1 b/man/cado.1
index 7b3693f..3724f6c 100644
--- a/man/cado.1
+++ b/man/cado.1
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ cado \- Capability Ambient DO
 ]
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-Cado permits to delegate capabilities to users.
+Cado allows the system administrator to delegate capabilities to users.
 Cado is a capability based sudo. Sudo allows authorized users to run programs as root (or as another user),
 cado allows authorized users to run programs with specific (ambient) capabilities.
 
diff --git a/man/cadrop.1 b/man/cadrop.1
index ec9d360..11aac7e 100644
--- a/man/cadrop.1
+++ b/man/cadrop.1
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ cadrop \- Capability Ambient Drop
 ]
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-Cadrop permits to drop (ambient) capabilities.
+Cadrop allows users to drop (ambient) capabilities.
 
 Cadrop launches the command indicated as a parameter ($SHELL if omitted) dropping all the capabilities 
 listed in the capability_list.
diff --git a/man/scado.1 b/man/scado.1
index 2b21d75..9b9a9de 100644
--- a/man/scado.1
+++ b/man/scado.1
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ scado \- Script Capability Ambient DO
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 
-\fBcado(1)\fR permits to delegate capabilities to users.
-Users can grant a subset of these ambient capabilities to trusted programs. 
+\fBcado(1)\fR allows the system administrator to delegate capabilities to users.
+Users can grant a subset of these ambient capabilities to trusted programs.
 Each user can define their own list of trusted programs and which capabilities to grant, using a scado file.
 \fBcado -S\fR or \fBcado --scado\fR run those trusted programs without any further authentication.
 In this way it is also possible to run programs requiring specific capabilities within a bash script.
diff --git a/src/cado.c b/src/cado.c
index 8434334..06dcac2 100644
--- a/src/cado.c
+++ b/src/cado.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ void usage(char *progname) {
 	fprintf(stderr,"  -f, --force        do not display warnings, do what is allowed\n");
 	fprintf(stderr,"  -v, --verbose      generate extra output\n");
 	fprintf(stderr,"  -S, --scado        check scado pre-authorization for scripts\n");
-	fprintf(stderr,"  -s, --setcap       set the minimun caps for %s (root access)\n",progname);
+	fprintf(stderr,"  -s, --setcap       set the minimum caps for %s (root access)\n",progname);
 	exit(1);
 }