diff --git a/string.c b/string.c
index 1dafb2cdd8..b37b8542c7 100644
--- a/string.c
+++ b/string.c
@@ -10592,8 +10592,8 @@ rb_str_unicode_normalized_p(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE str)
/**********************************************************************
* Document-class: Symbol
*
- * Symbol objects represent names and some strings inside the Ruby
- * interpreter. They are generated using the :name
and
+ * Symbol objects represent names inside the Ruby interpreter. They
+ * are generated using the :name
and
* :"string"
literals syntax, and by the various
* to_sym
methods. The same Symbol object will be
* created for a given name or string for the duration of a program's