diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT
index a383f43f9..0653e6d87 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCEMENT
+++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
-Announcement of ECLS v0.6
+Announcement of ECL v0.6
 =========================
 
-ECLS stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp "Spain", and I usually read it
-as "e-klos". It is a an implementation of the Common-Lisp language
-which aims to comply to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the language.
+ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project is an effort to
+modernize Giusseppe Attardi's ECL environment to produce an
+implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI
+X3J13 definition of the language.
 
-ECLS is currently hosted at SourceForge. The home page of the project
+ECL is currently hosted at SourceForge. The home page of the project
 is http://ecls.sourceforge.net, and in it you will find source code
 releases, a CVS tree and an up to date documentation.
 
-Notes about ECLS 0.6
+Notes about ECL 0.6
 ====================
 
 This release adds two new platforms
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ ECL 0.6
 
   - Code for handling :IMPORT-FROM in DEFPACKAGE was bogus
 
-  - The arguments of GENSYM should not be remembered by ECLS. The
+  - The arguments of GENSYM should not be remembered by ECL. The
     current behaviour was wrong:
 		> (gensym)
 		#:G36