diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 90acbf3c..fcaa2520 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
 dotted indicator).  You can permanently revert to the old progress
 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
 
-** You can limit the bandwidth spent by the retrieval using the
+** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
 `--limit-rate' option.  For example, "wget --limit-rate=15k URL" will
 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
 per second.