diff --git a/docs/man/docker-history.1.md b/docs/man/docker-history.1.md
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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Show the history of when and how an image was created.
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 ## Show the history of images created through docker commit command
-`docker commit` command accepts a **-m** parameter to provide comment messages to the image. You can see these messages in image history.
+The `docker commit` command has a **-m** flag for adding comments to the image. These comments will be displayed in the image history.
 
     $ sudo docker history docker:scm
     IMAGE               CREATED             CREATED BY                                      SIZE                COMMENT
diff --git a/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.md b/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.md
index f7d47edb0..ec26d0418 100644
--- a/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.md
+++ b/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.md
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ To see how the `docker:latest` image was built:
     750d58736b4b        6 weeks ago         /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Tianon Gravi <ad   0 B
     511136ea3c5a        9 months ago                                                        0 B                 Imported from -
 
-To see how the `docker:apache` image which was commited from a container:
+To see how the `docker:apache` image was added to a container's base image:
 
     $ sudo docker history docker:scm
     IMAGE               CREATED             CREATED BY                                      SIZE                COMMENT