diff --git a/data/json/monsters/insect_spider.json b/data/json/monsters/insect_spider.json
index 60740d7a88191..18ccca82c0f0b 100644
--- a/data/json/monsters/insect_spider.json
+++ b/data/json/monsters/insect_spider.json
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@
     "id": "mon_spider_cellar_small",
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "cellar spider" },
-    "description": "A cellar spider - also known as \"daddy long-legs\" - grown to distressing size.  Its body is about the size of your head, with the long,spindly legs raising it up to your knee.  It tries getting away from you with an unnervingly fluid run.",
+    "description": "A cellar spider - also known as \"daddy long-legs\" - grown to distressing size.  Its body is about the size of your head, with the long, spindly legs raising it up to your knee.  It tries getting away from you with an unnervingly fluid run.",
     "copy-from": "mon_spider_cellar_giant",
     "proportional": { "hp": 0.5, "melee_dice_sides": 0.67 },
     "aggression": -50,
@@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@
     "id": "mon_spider_cellar_leg",
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "detached spider leg" },
-    "description": "The strangely branching leg of a mutated cellar spider that…fell?  crawled?  off of the main body when hurt.  It now flails about blindly, irregular clawed appendages grasping at anything that comes close.",
+    "description": "The strangely branching leg of a mutated cellar spider that… fell?  crawled?  off of the main body when hurt.  It now flails about blindly, irregular clawed appendages grasping at anything that comes close.",
     "color": "brown",
     "symbol": "7",
     "default_faction": "factionless",