diff --git a/calendar/README.md b/calendar/README.md
index e218bcc..e30d22c 100644
--- a/calendar/README.md
+++ b/calendar/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Teaching calendar dates (LaTeX)
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-1. Set up teaching year and periods in `calendar_config.php`.
+1. Set up teaching periods in `calendar_config.php`.
 2. `make install`
 
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
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 1. Go to `$TEACHING_SHARED/Authoring/XML`.
-2. Set up teaching year and periods in `generate_calendar_dates.php`.
+2. Set up teaching periods in `generate_calendar_dates.php`.
 3. `make`.
 
 This should be better integrated one day!
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@
 Lecture dates
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-1. Set up teaching year, period dates, and paper class offsets in `lecturedates_config.php`.
+1. Set up teaching period dates, and paper class offsets in `lecturedates_config.php`.
 2. For each paper, run `generate_lecturedates.php` and write the output to the appropriate `.tex` file.