diff --git a/S3/S3.py b/S3/S3.py
index aa9cfcea..48232dd8 100644
--- a/S3/S3.py
+++ b/S3/S3.py
@@ -1999,7 +1999,7 @@ def recv_file(self, request, stream, labels, start_position=0, retries=None):
                 raise S3DownloadError("Download failed for: %s" % resource['uri'])
 
         if response["status"] < 200 or response["status"] > 299:
-            # In case of error, we still need to flush the read buffer to be able to re-use
+            # In case of error, we still need to flush the read buffer to be able to reuse
             # the connection
             response['data'] = http_response.read()
 
diff --git a/s3cmd b/s3cmd
index 8962ffdc..2766bd19 100755
--- a/s3cmd
+++ b/s3cmd
@@ -3102,7 +3102,7 @@ def main():
     optparser.add_option(      "--no-check-hostname", dest="check_ssl_hostname", action="store_false", help="Do not check SSL certificate hostname validity")
     optparser.add_option(      "--signature-v2", dest="signature_v2", action="store_true", help="Use AWS Signature version 2 instead of newer signature methods. Helpful for S3-like systems that don't have AWS Signature v4 yet.")
     optparser.add_option(      "--limit-rate", dest="limitrate", action="store", type="string", help="Limit the upload or download speed to amount bytes per second.  Amount may be expressed in bytes, kilobytes with the k suffix, or megabytes with the m suffix")
-    optparser.add_option(      "--no-connection-pooling", dest="connection_pooling", action="store_false", help="Disable connection re-use")
+    optparser.add_option(      "--no-connection-pooling", dest="connection_pooling", action="store_false", help="Disable connection reuse")
     optparser.add_option(      "--requester-pays", dest="requester_pays", action="store_true", help="Set the REQUESTER PAYS flag for operations")
     optparser.add_option("-l", "--long-listing", dest="long_listing", action="store_true", help="Produce long listing [ls]")
     optparser.add_option(      "--stop-on-error", dest="stop_on_error", action="store_true", help="stop if error in transfer")