diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3
index 9af2f8509fbcd8f6806c4073e323a6b8c238ea45..0ba4dfbd7a517e0b4b2db249249e73ff79f1d99b 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ general you should instead use the specific relative time compared to
 UTC. Supported formats include: -1200, MST, +0100.
 .TP
 .B day of the week items
-Specifies a day of the week. Days of the week may be spelled out in full:
-`Sunday', `Monday', etc or they may be abbreviated to their first three
-letters. This is usually not info that adds anything.
+Specifies a day of the week. Days of the week may be spelled out in full
+(using english): `Sunday', `Monday', etc or they may be abbreviated to their
+first three letters. This is usually not info that adds anything.
 .TP
 .B pure numbers
 If a decimal number of the form YYYYMMDD appears, then YYYY is read as the