diff --git a/reference/ctype/functions/ctype-alpha.xml b/reference/ctype/functions/ctype-alpha.xml
index 0acf612bf5..349c5e26f5 100644
--- a/reference/ctype/functions/ctype-alpha.xml
+++ b/reference/ctype/functions/ctype-alpha.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/ctype.xml, last change in rev 1.1 -->
   <refentry id="function.ctype-alpha">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
      a letter from the current locale, &false; otherwise. 
      In the standard <literal>C</literal> locale letters are just 
      <literal>[A-Za-z]</literal> and <function>ctype_alpha</function> is 
-     equivalent to <literal>(ctype_upper($text) || ctype_lower($text))</literal>,
-     but other languages have letters that are considered neither upper nor
-     lower case.
+     equivalent to <literal>(ctype_upper($text) || ctype_lower($text))</literal>
+     if $text is just a single character, but other languages have letters that 
+     are considered neither upper nor lower case.
     </para>
     <para>
      See also <function>ctype_upper</function>,