diff --git a/reference/mysqli/functions/mysqli-fetch-assoc.xml b/reference/mysqli/functions/mysqli-fetch-assoc.xml
index bf21dfe450..07d38fd398 100644
--- a/reference/mysqli/functions/mysqli-fetch-assoc.xml
+++ b/reference/mysqli/functions/mysqli-fetch-assoc.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.9 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.10 $ -->
   <refentry id="function.mysqli-fetch-assoc">
    <refnamediv>
     <refname>mysqli_fetch_assoc</refname>
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@
      of one of the result set's columns. 
     </para>
     <para>
-     If two or more columns in the result set have the same column name, the associative array
-     returned by the <function>mysqli_fetch_assoc</function> function will contain the value of
-     the last column of that name. If you must work with result sets with this properity, the
-     <function>mysqli_fetch_row</function> should be used which returns an numerically-indexed
-     array instead.
+     If two or more columns of the result have the same field names,
+     the last column will take precedence. To access the other
+     column(s) of the same name, you either need to access the
+     result with numeric indices by using
+     <function>mysqli_fetch_row</function> or add alias names.
     </para>
     &database.field-case;
    </refsect1>