Adopt more descriptive attribute names as suggested on python-dev.
diff --git a/Doc/library/functools.rst b/Doc/library/functools.rst
index 00ab624..a6e2382 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functools.rst
@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@
    results, the positional and keyword arguments to the function must be
    hashable.
 
-   The wrapped function is instrumented with two attributes, :attr:`hits`
-   and :attr:`misses` which count the number of successful or unsuccessful
+   The wrapped function is instrumented with two attributes, :attr:`cache_hits`
+   and :attr:`cache_misses` which count the number of successful or unsuccessful
    cache lookups.  These statistics are helpful for tuning the *maxsize*
    parameter and for measuring the cache's effectiveness.
 
-   The wrapped function also has a :attr:`clear` attribute which can be
+   The wrapped function also has a :attr:`cache_clear` attribute which can be
    called (with no arguments) to clear the cache.
 
    The original underlying function is accessible through the
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index e3cf864..9181b4f 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -85,17 +85,17 @@
           return c.fetchone()[0]
 
   To help with choosing an effective cache size, the wrapped function is
-  instrumented with two attributes *hits* and *misses*::
+  instrumented with two attributes *cache_hits* and *cache_misses*::
 
         >>> for name in user_requests:
         ...     get_phone_number(name)
-        >>> print(get_phone_number.hits, get_phone_number.misses)
+        >>> print(get_phone_number.cache_hits, get_phone_number.cache_misses)
         4805 980
 
   If the phonelist table gets updated, the outdated contents of the cache can be
   cleared with::
 
-        >>> get_phone_number.clear()
+        >>> get_phone_number.cache_clear()
 
   (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger)