diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/MemStoreFlusher.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/MemStoreFlusher.java
index fb90881fd0e..2216b5c41bc 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/MemStoreFlusher.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/MemStoreFlusher.java
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ class MemStoreFlusher implements FlushRequester {
    * on delay queue to retry later.
    * @param fqe
    * @return true if the region was successfully flushed, false otherwise. If
-   * false, there will be accompanying log messages explaining why the log was
+   * false, there will be accompanying log messages explaining why the region was
    * not flushed.
    */
   private boolean flushRegion(final FlushRegionEntry fqe) {
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ class MemStoreFlusher implements FlushRequester {
    * poll on the flush queue (which removed it).
    * @param forceFlushAllStores whether we want to flush all store.
    * @return true if the region was successfully flushed, false otherwise. If
-   * false, there will be accompanying log messages explaining why the log was
+   * false, there will be accompanying log messages explaining why the region was
    * not flushed.
    */
   private boolean flushRegion(final HRegion region, final boolean emergencyFlush,