diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-kernel-appendix.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-kernel-appendix.xml
index 962ac0bfb1..d33b77580c 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-kernel-appendix.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-kernel-appendix.xml
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@
                 The OpenEmbedded build system recognizes this kernel as 
                 <filename>linux-yocto</filename>.
                 Thus, the following commands from the shell in which you previously sourced the 
-                environment initialization script cleans the shared state memory and the 
+                environment initialization script cleans the shared state cache and the 
                 <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-WORKDIR'><filename>WORKDIR</filename></ulink>
                 directory and then builds and launches <filename>menuconfig</filename>:
                 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/technical-details.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/technical-details.xml
index a63943e0c6..4cc1a7b395 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/technical-details.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/technical-details.xml
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@
             <title>Invalidating Shared State</title>
 
             <para>
-                The shared state code uses checksums and shared state memory 
+                The shared state code uses checksums and shared state
                 cache to avoid unnecessarily rebuilding tasks.
                 As with all schemes, this one has some drawbacks.
                 It is possible that you could make implicit changes that are not factored