Slight tweaks on #15443.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15445

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 69cd592d9c..744e63648f 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -704,10 +704,13 @@ Also see L<Error Indicators>.
 
 Each element of C<%!> has a true value only if C<$!> is set to that
 value.  For example, C<$!{ENOENT}> is true if and only if the current
-value of C<$!> is C<ENOENT>; that is, if the mot recent error was "No
-such file or directory".  To check if a particular key is meaningful
-on your system, use C<exists $!{the_key}>; for a list of legal keys,
-use C<keys %!>.  See L<Errno> for more information.
+value of C<$!> is C<ENOENT>; that is, if the most recent error was
+"No such file or directory" (or its moral equivalent: not all operating
+systems give that exact error, and certainly not all languages).
+To check if a particular key is meaningful on your system, use
+C<exists $!{the_key}>; for a list of legal keys, use C<keys %!>.
+See L<Errno> for more information, and also see above for the
+validity of C<$!>.
 
 =item $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR