diff --git a/cook b/cook
index 18e0195bd2..fd7181b8f7 100755
--- a/cook
+++ b/cook
@@ -382,12 +382,13 @@ sub blurb_text {
 	$text ||= <<'EOF';
 Here are the topics that have been cooking in my tree.  Commits
 prefixed with '+' are in 'next' (being in 'next' is a sign that a
-topic is stable enough to be used and are candidate to be in a future
-release).  Commits prefixed with '-' are only in 'seen', and aren't
-considered "accepted" at all and may be annotated with an URL to a
-message that raises issues but they are no means exhaustive.  A
-topic without enough support may be discarded after a long period of
-no activity.
+topic is stable enough to be used and is a candidate to be in a
+future release).  Commits prefixed with '-' are only in 'seen', and
+aren't considered "accepted" at all and may be annotated with a URL
+to a message that raises issues but they are by no means exhaustive.
+A topic without enough support may be discarded after a long period
+of no activity (of course they can be resubmitted when new interests
+arise).
 
 Copies of the source code to Git live in many repositories, and the
 following is a list of the ones I push into or their mirrors.  Some