diff --git a/src/etc/root/root.mail b/src/etc/root/root.mail
index 1fe1869f..b1508899 100644
--- a/src/etc/root/root.mail
+++ b/src/etc/root/root.mail
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ system administrator of an OpenBSD box might have.  You are urged to save
 this message for later reference.
 
 For more information on how to set up your OpenBSD system, refer to the
-"afterboot" man page (ie. after you exit the mail subsystem, type
+"afterboot" man page (i.e. after you exit the mail subsystem, type
 "man afterboot").  If you are not familiar with how to read man pages, type
 "man man" at a shell prompt and read the entire thing.  Pay specific
 attention to the "man -k keyword" option, which will permit you to find the
-man page you are looking for easier, for instance "man -k ethernet".  The
-GNU "info" subsystem is also installed with further documentation resources;
+man page you are looking for more easily; for instance, "man -k ethernet".  The
+GNU "info" subsystem is also installed with further documentation resources:
 to read info pages type "info".  (The info subsystem behaves like the
-popular emacs editor).
+popular emacs editor.)
 
 Again, PLEASE READ THE MANUAL PAGES.  Our developers have spent countless
 hours improving them so that they are clear and precise.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Several popular binary packages (pre-compiled applications) are available
 for most architectures.  If you installed from a CD-ROM the packages
 are on the same CD-ROM you installed from in the directory 3.7/packages.
 
-CD-ROM Space permitted us to include a subset of the full FTP packages
+CD-ROM space permitted us to include a subset of the full FTP packages
 for the most common architectures.  Please see the FTP sites to see a
 full list of packages for each architecture:
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ including a bit of information about your machine in the subject or the body
 can help us even further.  We will use this information to improve device driver
 support in future releases.  (Please do this using the supplied GENERIC kernel,
 not for a custom compiled kernel, unless you're unable to boot the GENERIC
-kernel).  The device driver information we get from this helps us fix existing
+kernel.)  The device driver information we get from this helps us fix existing
 drivers. Thank you!
 
 (If you used 'mail' to read this message and it scrolled by too quickly,