diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 779ca3a657..bef5d9413b 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 GETTING HELP: If you need help with GnuCash, please do not contact any of the
 Authors directly. Instead, first look at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ to
-see if your question is common and is answered there. If that doesn't help, are
-mailing lists in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese and an
-English IRC channel. More information can be found at
+see if your question is common and is answered there. If that doesn't help,
+there are mailing lists in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and
+Portuguese and an English IRC channel. More information can be found at
 http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists and http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/IRC.
 
 Main Developers:
diff --git a/DOCUMENTERS b/DOCUMENTERS
index 9037d0ce36..595f4c68e7 100644
--- a/DOCUMENTERS
+++ b/DOCUMENTERS
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 GETTING HELP: If you need help with GnuCash, please do not contact any of the
 Documentors directly. Instead, first look at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ to
-see if your question is common and is answered there. If that doesn't help, are
-mailing lists in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese and an
-English IRC channel. More information can be found at
+see if your question is common and is answered there. If that doesn't help,
+there are mailing lists in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and
+Portuguese and an English IRC channel. More information can be found at
 http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists and http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/IRC.
 
 Contributors: