diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index a1fa3ad3c..5990ae873 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ Other changes:
   properties.
 
 * <concat> can now control the encoding of the output as well and optionally
-  add new-line characters at the end files that get concatenated but
+  add new-line characters at the end of files that get concatenated but
   don't end in newlines.  Bugzilla Report 12511.
 
 Changes from Ant 1.5.2 to Ant 1.5.3
diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/concat.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/concat.html
index 6fb363b6c..b25fb30b4 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/concat.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/concat.html
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
 	      <li>unix: a single LF</li>
 	      <li>dos: the pair CRLF</li>
 	    </ul>
-            The default is &quot;platform&quot;.
+            The default is platform dependent.
             For Unix platforms, the default is &quot;lf&quot;.
 	    For DOS based systems (including Windows),
             the default is &quot;crlf&quot;.