diff --git a/appl/telnet/telnet/commands.c b/appl/telnet/telnet/commands.c
index 0a0ddad02..f045666f8 100644
--- a/appl/telnet/telnet/commands.c
+++ b/appl/telnet/telnet/commands.c
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ static struct togglelist Togglelist[] = {
 		&autologin,
 		    "send login name and/or authentication information" },
     { "authdebug",
-	"Toggle authentication debugging",
+	"authentication debugging",
 	    auth_togdebug,
 		0,
 		     "print authentication debugging information" },
@@ -625,12 +625,12 @@ static struct togglelist Togglelist[] = {
 		0,
 		    "automatically decrypt input" },
     { "verbose_encrypt",
-	"Toggle verbose encryption output",
+	"verbose encryption output",
 	    EncryptVerbose,
 		0,
 		    "print verbose encryption output" },
     { "encdebug",
-	"Toggle encryption debugging",
+	"encryption debugging",
 	    EncryptDebug,
 		0,
 		    "print encryption debugging information" },
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ static struct togglelist Togglelist[] = {
 		&showoptions,
 		    "show option processing" },
     { "termdata",
-	"(debugging) toggle printing of hexadecimal terminal data",
+	"printing of hexadecimal terminal data (debugging)",
 	    0,
 		&termdata,
 		    "print hexadecimal representation of terminal traffic" },