diff --git a/Doc/faq/library.rst b/Doc/faq/library.rst
index 1fc2389..b409bb6 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/library.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/library.rst
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@
    if reply != 200:
        sys.stdout.write(httpobj.getfile().read())
 
-Note that in general for URL-encoded POST operations, query strings must be
+Note that in general for a percent-encoded POST operations, query strings must be
 quoted by using :func:`urllib.quote`.  For example to send name="Guy Steele,
 Jr."::
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index e6832fe..2dddc18 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -2126,7 +2126,7 @@
 
    .. method:: emit(record)
 
-      Sends the record to the Web server as an URL-encoded dictionary.
+      Sends the record to the Web server as a percent-encoded dictionary.
 
 
 .. _formatter-objects:
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
index 72b8028..37ddea0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
    values are lists of values for each name.
 
    The optional argument *keep_blank_values* is a flag indicating whether blank
-   values in URL encoded queries should be treated as blank strings.   A true value
+   values in percent-encoded queries should be treated as blank strings. A true value
    indicates that blanks should be retained as  blank strings.  The default false
    value indicates that blank values are to be ignored and treated as if they were
    not included.
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
    name, value pairs.
 
    The optional argument *keep_blank_values* is a flag indicating whether blank
-   values in URL encoded queries should be treated as blank strings.   A true value
+   values in percent-encoded queries should be treated as blank strings. A true value
    indicates that blanks should be retained as  blank strings.  The default false
    value indicates that blank values are to be ignored and treated as if they were
    not included.
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
 .. function:: urlencode(query, doseq=False, safe='', encoding=None, errors=None)
 
    Convert a mapping object or a sequence of two-element tuples, which may
-   either be a :class:`str` or a :class:`bytes`,  to a "url-encoded" string,
+   either be a :class:`str` or a :class:`bytes`,  to a "percent-encoded" string,
    suitable to pass to :func:`urlopen` above as the optional *data* argument.
    This is useful to pass a dictionary of form fields to a ``POST`` request.
    The resulting string is a series of ``key=value`` pairs separated by ``'&'``
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index 75ff857..1b90d32 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
 
 .. function:: url2pathname(path)
 
-   Convert the path component *path* from an encoded URL to the local syntax for a
+   Convert the path component *path* from a percent-encoded URL to the local syntax for a
    path.  This does not accept a complete URL.  This function uses :func:`unquote`
    to decode *path*.