diff --git a/lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/flexible/standard/CommonQueryParserConfiguration.java b/lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/flexible/standard/CommonQueryParserConfiguration.java
index 3f688e6fd52..7c305f38bcb 100644
--- a/lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/flexible/standard/CommonQueryParserConfiguration.java
+++ b/lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/flexible/standard/CommonQueryParserConfiguration.java
@@ -33,13 +33,9 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.MultiTermQuery;
 public interface CommonQueryParserConfiguration {
   
   /**
-   * Set to <code>true</code> to allow leading wildcard characters.
-   * <p>
-   * When set, <code>*</code> or <code>?</code> are allowed as the first
-   * character of a PrefixQuery and WildcardQuery. Note that this can produce
-   * very slow queries on big indexes.
-   * <p>
-   * Default: false.
+   * Whether terms of multi-term queries (e.g., wildcard,
+   * prefix, fuzzy and range) should be automatically
+   * lower-cased or not.  Default is <code>true</code>.
    */
   public void setLowercaseExpandedTerms(boolean lowercaseExpandedTerms);
   
diff --git a/lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/flexible/standard/config/StandardQueryConfigHandler.java b/lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/flexible/standard/config/StandardQueryConfigHandler.java
index b65e1a78d09..a7fd34a4ef1 100644
--- a/lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/flexible/standard/config/StandardQueryConfigHandler.java
+++ b/lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/flexible/standard/config/StandardQueryConfigHandler.java
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public class StandardQueryConfigHandler extends QueryConfigHandler {
     final public static ConfigurationKey<Boolean> ENABLE_POSITION_INCREMENTS = ConfigurationKey.newInstance();
     
     /**
-     * Key used to set whether expanded terms should be expanded
+     * Key used to set whether expanded terms should be lower-cased
      * 
      * @see StandardQueryParser#setLowercaseExpandedTerms(boolean)
      * @see StandardQueryParser#getLowercaseExpandedTerms()