diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/UUID.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/UUID.java
index d1c81badba674..afdcd8891546e 100644
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/UUID.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/UUID.java
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@
 import jdk.internal.util.ByteArrayLittleEndian;
 
 /**
- * A class that represents an immutable universally unique identifier (UUID).
+ * A class that represents an immutable Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID).
  * A UUID represents a 128-bit value.
  *
- * <p> There exist different variants of these global identifiers.  The methods
+ * <p> There exist different variants of these UUIDs.  The methods
  * of this class are for manipulating the Leach-Salz variant, although the
  * constructors allow the creation of any variant of UUID (described below).
  *