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diff --git a/guix/download.scm b/guix/download.scm
index 6622e252b4..c24e0132c7 100644
--- a/guix/download.scm
+++ b/guix/download.scm
@@ -463,17 +463,17 @@ download by itself using its own dependencies."
#:key (system (%current-system))
(guile (default-guile))
executable?)
- "Return a fixed-output derivation that fetches URL (a string, or a list of
-strings denoting alternate URLs), which is expected to have hash HASH of type
-HASH-ALGO (a symbol). By default, the file name is the base name of URL;
-optionally, NAME can specify a different file name. When EXECUTABLE? is true,
-make the downloaded file executable.
+ "Return a fixed-output derivation that fetches data from URL (a string, or a
+list of strings denoting alternate URLs), which is expected to have hash HASH
+of type HASH-ALGO (a symbol). By default, the file name is the base name of
+URL; optionally, NAME can specify a different file name. When EXECUTABLE? is
+true, make the downloaded file executable.
When one of the URL starts with mirror://, then its host part is
interpreted as the name of a mirror scheme, taken from %MIRROR-FILE.
-Alternately, when URL starts with file://, return the corresponding file name
-in the store."
+Alternatively, when URL starts with file://, return the corresponding file
+name in the store."
(define file-name
(match url
((head _ ...)