diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/tasks/statistics.rake b/railties/lib/rails/tasks/statistics.rake
index 4f09ded31dd82fb274095ad0b3cd0b3af1f2011a..ba6168e208338d0cdf7e631712f444b83c07f685 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/tasks/statistics.rake
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/tasks/statistics.rake
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# while having global constant is not good,
-# many 3rd party tools depend on it, like rspec-rails, cucumber-rails, etc
-# so if will be removed - deprecation warning is needed
+# While global constants are bad, many 3rd party tools depend on this one (e.g
+# rspec-rails & cucumber-rails). So a deprecation warning is needed if we want
+# to remove it.
 STATS_DIRECTORIES = [
   %w(Controllers        app/controllers),
   %w(Helpers            app/helpers),