#7926: fix-up wording.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 8bfbbab..c6f7c2d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -470,7 +470,8 @@
        ...
 
 Finally, the :func:`closing` function returns its argument so that it can be
-bound to a variable, and calls ``object.close`` at the end of the block. ::
+bound to a variable, and calls the argument's ``.close()`` method at the end
+of the block. ::
 
    import urllib, sys
    from contextlib import closing