diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 9592efb..ef0b554 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -73,3 +73,4 @@
 * Kodi Arfer <git@arfer.net>
 * Karan Sharma <karansharma1295@gmail.com>
 * Sergey Sobko <s.sobko@profitware.ru>
+* Philip Xu <pyx@xrefactor.com>
diff --git a/hy/core/language.hy b/hy/core/language.hy
index df9dbff..5cb546c 100644
--- a/hy/core/language.hy
+++ b/hy/core/language.hy
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
   (long-type x))
 
 (defn integer? [x]
-  "Return True if x in an integer"
+  "Return True if x is an integer"
   (isinstance x (, int long-type)))
 
 (defn integer-char? [x]
@@ -299,8 +299,8 @@
   (isinstance x collections.Iterator))
 
 (defn juxt [f &rest fs]
-  "Return a function that apply a set of functions to same arguments and
-   collect the result into a list."
+  "Return a function that applies each of the supplied functions to a single
+   set of arguments and collects the results into a list."
   (setv fs (cons f fs))
   (fn [&rest args &kwargs kwargs]
     (list-comp (apply f args kwargs) [f fs])))