diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
index b6a0e17..627ee4e 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/design.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst
@@ -649,9 +649,10 @@
 you won't be fooled into accidentally overwriting a list when you need a sorted
 copy but also need to keep the unsorted version around.
 
-In Python 2.4 a new builtin -- :func:`sorted` -- has been added.  This function
-creates a new list from a provided iterable, sorts it and returns it.  For
-example, here's how to iterate over the keys of a dictionary in sorted order::
+In Python 2.4 a new built-in function -- :func:`sorted` -- has been added.
+This function creates a new list from a provided iterable, sorts it and returns
+it.  For example, here's how to iterate over the keys of a dictionary in sorted
+order::
 
    for key in sorted(mydict):
        ... # do whatever with mydict[key]...
diff --git a/Doc/faq/extending.rst b/Doc/faq/extending.rst
index 9091193..7f0c16e 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/extending.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/extending.rst
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@
 Can I create an object class with some methods implemented in C and others in Python (e.g. through inheritance)?
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-In Python 2.2, you can inherit from builtin classes such as :class:`int`,
+In Python 2.2, you can inherit from built-in classes such as :class:`int`,
 :class:`list`, :class:`dict`, etc.
 
 The Boost Python Library (BPL, http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html)
diff --git a/Doc/faq/library.rst b/Doc/faq/library.rst
index a7d7052..2824330 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/library.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/library.rst
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
 Where is the math.py (socket.py, regex.py, etc.) source file?
 -------------------------------------------------------------
 
-If you can't find a source file for a module it may be a builtin or dynamically
-loaded module implemented in C, C++ or other compiled language.  In this case
-you may not have the source file or it may be something like mathmodule.c,
-somewhere in a C source directory (not on the Python Path).
+If you can't find a source file for a module it may be a built-in or
+dynamically loaded module implemented in C, C++ or other compiled language.
+In this case you may not have the source file or it may be something like
+mathmodule.c, somewhere in a C source directory (not on the Python Path).
 
 There are (at least) three kinds of modules in Python:
 
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
 
 In theory, this means an exact accounting requires an exact understanding of the
 PVM bytecode implementation.  In practice, it means that operations on shared
-variables of builtin data types (ints, lists, dicts, etc) that "look atomic"
+variables of built-in data types (ints, lists, dicts, etc) that "look atomic"
 really are.
 
 For example, the following operations are all atomic (L, L1, L2 are lists, D,
@@ -504,9 +504,9 @@
 
 :func:`os.read` is a low-level function which takes a file descriptor, a small
 integer representing the opened file.  :func:`os.popen` creates a high-level
-file object, the same type returned by the builtin :func:`open` function.  Thus,
-to read n bytes from a pipe p created with :func:`os.popen`, you need to use
-``p.read(n)``.
+file object, the same type returned by the built-in :func:`open` function.
+Thus, to read n bytes from a pipe p created with :func:`os.popen`, you need to
+use ``p.read(n)``.
 
 
 .. XXX update to use subprocess. See the :ref:`subprocess-replacements` section.
@@ -607,10 +607,11 @@
 which in turn are a medium-level layer of abstraction on top of (among other
 things) low-level C file descriptors.
 
-For most file objects you create in Python via the builtin ``open`` constructor,
-``f.close()`` marks the Python file object as being closed from Python's point
-of view, and also arranges to close the underlying C stream.  This also happens
-automatically in f's destructor, when f becomes garbage.
+For most file objects you create in Python via the built-in ``open``
+constructor, ``f.close()`` marks the Python file object as being closed from
+Python's point of view, and also arranges to close the underlying C stream.
+This also happens automatically in ``f``'s destructor, when ``f`` becomes
+garbage.
 
 But stdin, stdout and stderr are treated specially by Python, because of the
 special status also given to them by C.  Running ``sys.stdout.close()`` marks
diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
index 3c9e5f4..a35459b 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
@@ -178,9 +178,10 @@
 
    L2 = list(L1[:3])  # "list" is redundant if L1 is a list.
 
-Note that the functionally-oriented builtins such as :func:`map`, :func:`zip`,
-and friends can be a convenient accelerator for loops that perform a single
-task.  For example to pair the elements of two lists together::
+Note that the functionally-oriented built-in functions such as :func:`map`,
+:func:`zip`, and friends can be a convenient accelerator for loops that
+perform a single task.  For example to pair the elements of two lists
+together::
 
    >>> list(zip([1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]))
    [(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)]
@@ -203,7 +204,7 @@
 on string objects <string-methods>`.  Use regular expressions only when you're
 not dealing with constant string patterns.
 
-Be sure to use the :meth:`list.sort` builtin method to do sorting, and see the
+Be sure to use the :meth:`list.sort` built-in method to do sorting, and see the
 `sorting mini-HOWTO <http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting>`_ for examples
 of moderately advanced usage.  :meth:`list.sort` beats other techniques for
 sorting in all but the most extreme circumstances.
@@ -361,7 +362,7 @@
 one hand, requiring :keyword:`global` for assigned variables provides a bar
 against unintended side-effects.  On the other hand, if ``global`` was required
 for all global references, you'd be using ``global`` all the time.  You'd have
-to declare as global every reference to a builtin function or to a component of
+to declare as global every reference to a built-in function or to a component of
 an imported module.  This clutter would defeat the usefulness of the ``global``
 declaration for identifying side-effects.
 
@@ -1033,7 +1034,7 @@
 How do I iterate over a sequence in reverse order?
 --------------------------------------------------
 
-Use the :func:`reversed` builtin function, which is new in Python 2.4::
+Use the :func:`reversed` built-in function, which is new in Python 2.4::
 
    for x in reversed(sequence):
        ... # do something with x...