diff --git a/gio/glib-compile-resources.c b/gio/glib-compile-resources.c
index 136c8391c..bf88334b1 100644
--- a/gio/glib-compile-resources.c
+++ b/gio/glib-compile-resources.c
@@ -734,13 +734,13 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   GOptionContext *context;
   GOptionEntry entries[] = {
     { "version", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &show_version_and_exit, N_("Show program version and exit"), NULL },
-    { "target", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME, &target, N_("name of the output file"), N_("FILE") },
+    { "target", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME, &target, N_("Name of the output file"), N_("FILE") },
     { "sourcedir", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY, &sourcedirs, N_("The directories to load files referenced in FILE from (default: current directory)"), N_("DIRECTORY") },
     { "generate", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &generate_automatic, N_("Generate output in the format selected for by the target filename extension"), NULL },
     { "generate-header", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &generate_header, N_("Generate source header"), NULL },
-    { "generate-source", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &generate_source, N_("Generate sourcecode used to link in the resource file into your code"), NULL },
+    { "generate-source", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &generate_source, N_("Generate source code used to link in the resource file into your code"), NULL },
     { "generate-dependencies", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &generate_dependencies, N_("Generate dependency list"), NULL },
-    { "dependency-file", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME, &dependency_file, N_("name of the dependency file to generate"), N_("FILE") },
+    { "dependency-file", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME, &dependency_file, N_("Name of the dependency file to generate"), N_("FILE") },
     { "generate-phony-targets", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &generate_phony_targets, N_("Include phony targets in the generated dependency file"), NULL },
     { "manual-register", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &manual_register, N_("Don’t automatically create and register resource"), NULL },
     { "internal", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &internal, N_("Don’t export functions; declare them G_GNUC_INTERNAL"), NULL },