diff --git a/inbox/entityversioning.xml b/inbox/entityversioning.xml
index a0d77cab..5ac781ac 100644
--- a/inbox/entityversioning.xml
+++ b/inbox/entityversioning.xml
@@ -326,8 +326,8 @@
     be useful know in advance if the roster has changed or not (so that we can
     avoid sending the large request entirely). To do this, we can request an
     aggregate version token from the server. This aggregate token is calculated
-    by constructing a string of comma separated "bare JID:version" pairs sorted
-    in byte-wise order (because the JID:version pair is constructed before
+    by constructing a string of comma separated "JID:version" pairs sorted in
+    byte-wise order (because the JID:version pair is constructed before
     sorting, if two items in the list have the same JID they can still be
     sorted by the version token), and taking the MD5 hash of the constructed
     string. For example, if the server is calculating the aggregate version