diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 21a50ee48e..986b76a67f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -335,14 +335,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 251:
           this way can be turned off via the new
           `systemd.import_credentials=no` kernel command line option.
 
-        * LoadCredential= will now automatically search for credentials to
-          import in the /etc/credstore/, /run/credstore/, /usr/lib/credstore/
-          directories if no or a relative source filename is passed. Similar
-          LoadCredentialEncrypted= will search in these same directories, plus
+        * LoadCredential= will now automatically look for credentials in the
+          /etc/credstore/, /run/credstore/, /usr/lib/credstore/ directories if
+          the argument is not an absolute path. Similarly,
+          LoadCredentialEncrypted= will check the same directories plus
           /etc/credstore.encrypted/, /run/credstore.encrypted/ and
-          /usr/lib/credstore.encrypted/. The idea is that these directories are
-          now the recommended system-wide location to place credentials for
-          automatic pick-up by services in.
+          /usr/lib/credstore.encrypted/. The idea is to use those directories
+          as the system-wide location for credentials that services should pick
+          up automatically.
 
         * System and service credentials are described in great detail in a new
           document:
diff --git a/README b/README
index 56614a778d..3b104c2a46 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ POLICY FOR SUPPORT OF DISTRIBUTIONS AND ARCHITECTURES:
         expected to compile on current versions of popular distributions (at
         least all non-EOL versions of Fedora, Debian unstable/testing/stable,
         latest Ubuntu LTS and non-LTS releases, openSUSE Tumbleweed/Leap,
-        CentoOS Stream 8 and 9, up-to-date Arch, etc.)  We will generally
+        CentOS Stream 8 and 9, up-to-date Arch, etc.)  We will generally
         attempt to support also other non-EOL versions of various distros.
         Features which would break compilation on slightly-older distributions
         will only be introduced if there are significant reasons for this