diff --git a/Include/codecs.h b/Include/codecs.h
index c979e86..4ea934e 100644
--- a/Include/codecs.h
+++ b/Include/codecs.h
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
 
 /* Unicode encoding error handling callback registry API */
 
-/* Register the error handling callback function error under the name
+/* Register the error handling callback function error under the given
    name. This function will be called by the codec when it encounters
    unencodable characters/undecodable bytes and doesn't know the
    callback name, when name is specified as the error parameter
@@ -152,8 +152,8 @@
    Return 0 on success, -1 on error */
 PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyCodec_RegisterError(const char *name, PyObject *error);
 
-/* Lookup the error handling callback function registered under the
-   name error. As a special case NULL can be passed, in which case
+/* Lookup the error handling callback function registered under the given
+   name. As a special case NULL can be passed, in which case
    the error handling callback for "strict" will be returned. */
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_LookupError(const char *name);
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
 /* ignore the unicode error, skipping the faulty input */
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_IgnoreErrors(PyObject *exc);
 
-/* replace the unicode error with ? or U+FFFD */
+/* replace the unicode encode error with ? or U+FFFD */
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyCodec_ReplaceErrors(PyObject *exc);
 
 /* replace the unicode encode error with XML character references */