diff --git a/api/static-site.ts b/api/static-site.ts
index b8b09fa..2fb862e 100644
--- a/api/static-site.ts
+++ b/api/static-site.ts
@@ -246,11 +246,11 @@ const NGINX_CONF = `server {
   }
 
   # Everything a build produces. A year, and immutable — earned, not assumed: every asset the layout
-  # links carries `?v=<build id>`, so a build that changes a file changes its URL, and the HTML that
-  # carries the new URLs is `no-cache` and revalidated on every visit. The two cannot disagree.
+  # links carries a ?v= stamp of the build id, so a build that changes a file changes its URL, and
+  # the HTML carrying the new URLs is no-cache and revalidated every visit. They cannot disagree.
   #
-  # This was seven days for as long as the URLs were bare, which was correct then: a stable name with a
-  # long life means somebody running last week's script against this week's markup.
+  # It was seven days while the URLs were bare, which was correct then: a stable name with a long life
+  # means somebody running last week's script against this week's markup.
   location ~* \\.(css|js|webp|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|svg|ico|mp4)$ {
     expires 1y;
     add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable";