diff --git a/pep-0344.txt b/pep-0344.txt
index 4a3f85ab6..044a615f4 100644
--- a/pep-0344.txt
+++ b/pep-0344.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Rationale
     As for other languages, Java and Ruby both discard the original
     exception when another exception occurs in a 'catch'/'rescue' or
     'finally'/'ensure' clause.  Perl 5 lacks built-in structured
-    exception handling.  For Perl 6, RFC 88 [9] proposes an exception
+    exception handling.  For Perl 6, RFC number 88 [9] proposes an exception
     mechanism that implicitly retains chained exceptions in an array
     named @@.  In that RFC, the most recently raised exception is
     exposed for matching, as in this PEP; also, arbitrary expressions
diff --git a/pep-3134.txt b/pep-3134.txt
index bfd8e7aaa..ca0d5c565 100644
--- a/pep-3134.txt
+++ b/pep-3134.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Rationale
     As for other languages, Java and Ruby both discard the original
     exception when another exception occurs in a 'catch'/'rescue' or
     'finally'/'ensure' clause.  Perl 5 lacks built-in structured
-    exception handling.  For Perl 6, RFC 88 [9] proposes an exception
+    exception handling.  For Perl 6, RFC number 88 [9] proposes an exception
     mechanism that implicitly retains chained exceptions in an array
     named @@.  In that RFC, the most recently raised exception is
     exposed for matching, as in this PEP; also, arbitrary expressions