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@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ take it into account for their packet retransmit strategy.
 .IP
 To bootstrap the path MTU discovery process on unconnected sockets, it
 is possible to start with a big datagram size
-(up to 64K-headers bytes long) and let it shrink by updates of the path MTU.
+(headers up to 64 kilobytes long) and let it shrink by updates of the path MTU.
 .IP
 To get an initial estimate of the
 path MTU, connect a datagram socket to the destination address using