diff --git a/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml b/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml
index ad84368ea..4bfefd81c 100644
--- a/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of GCC</title>
 
-<note><para>The test suite for GCC in this section is considered <emphasis>
-critical</emphasis>. Our advice is to not skip it under any
-circumstances.</para></note>
+<note><para>The test suite for GCC in this section is considered
+<emphasis>critical</emphasis>. Our advice is to not skip it under any
+circumstance.</para></note>
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
 default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options).
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
index ab2895e23..76e595bcc 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ at <filename>/tools</filename>. We cannot adjust the specs and linker before
 the Glibc install, because the Glibc autoconf tests would then give bogus
 results and thus defeat our goal of achieving a clean build.</para>
 
-<note><para>The test suite for Glibc in this section is considered <emphasis>
-critical</emphasis>. Our advice is to not skip it under any
-circumstances.</para></note>
+<note><para>The test suite for Glibc in this section is considered
+<emphasis>critical</emphasis>. Our advice is to not skip it under any
+circumstance.</para></note>
 
 <para>Before starting to build Glibc, remember to unpack the Glibc-linuxthreads
 again inside the <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;</filename> directory, and to