diff --git a/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst b/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst
index 588f5a0a53d..ea494f2fdbb 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/logging-cookbook.rst
@@ -332,10 +332,10 @@ Suppose you configure logging with the following JSON:
         }
     }
 
-This configuration does *almost* what we want, except that ``sys.stdout`` would
-show messages of severity ``ERROR`` and above as well as ``INFO`` and
-``WARNING`` messages. To prevent this, we can set up a filter which excludes
-those messages and add it to the relevant handler. This can be configured by
+This configuration does *almost* what we want, except that ``sys.stdout`` would show messages
+of severity ``ERROR`` and only events of this severity and higher will be tracked
+as well as ``INFO`` and ``WARNING`` messages. To prevent this, we can set up a filter which
+excludes those messages and add it to the relevant handler. This can be configured by
 adding a ``filters`` section parallel to ``formatters`` and ``handlers``:
 
 .. code-block:: json
diff --git a/Doc/howto/logging.rst b/Doc/howto/logging.rst
index 7330cf675ba..f164b461c93 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/logging.rst
@@ -89,9 +89,8 @@ described below (in increasing order of severity):
 |              | itself may be unable to continue running.   |
 +--------------+---------------------------------------------+
 
-The default level is ``WARNING``, which means that only events of this level
-and above will be tracked, unless the logging package is configured to do
-otherwise.
+The default level is ``WARNING``, which means that only events of this severity and higher
+will be tracked, unless the logging package is configured to do otherwise.
 
 Events that are tracked can be handled in different ways. The simplest way of
 handling tracked events is to print them to the console. Another common way