diff --git a/source/expressions.tex b/source/expressions.tex
index 54e40c91a9..3ee94afec2 100644
--- a/source/expressions.tex
+++ b/source/expressions.tex
@@ -2656,7 +2656,7 @@
 void g() {
   const int N = 10;
   [=] {
-    int arr[N];     // OK, not an odr-use, refers to automatic variable
+    int arr[N];     // OK, not an odr-use, refers to variable with automatic storage duration
     f(&N);          // OK, causes \tcode{N} to be captured; \tcode{\&N} points to
                     // the corresponding member of the closure type
   };
@@ -7609,7 +7609,8 @@
 \begin{note}
 If the odr-use occurs in an invocation
 of a function call operator of a closure type,
-it no longer refers to \keyword{this} or to an enclosing automatic variable
+it no longer refers to \keyword{this} or to an enclosing
+variable with automatic storage duration
 due to the transformation\iref{expr.prim.lambda.capture}
 of the \grammarterm{id-expression} into
 an access of the corresponding data member.
diff --git a/source/iostreams.tex b/source/iostreams.tex
index 80a58115aa..7609a987cc 100644
--- a/source/iostreams.tex
+++ b/source/iostreams.tex
@@ -6855,7 +6855,7 @@
 without turning on \tcode{ios_base::badbit} in the error state of \tcode{os}.
 \end{itemize}
 After constructing a \tcode{sentry} object,
-the function initializes an automatic variable via
+the function initializes a variable with automatic storage duration via
 \begin{codeblock}
 string out = vformat(os.getloc(), fmt, args);
 \end{codeblock}