diff --git a/docs/decisions.md b/docs/decisions.md
index 1e36208..4401bbf 100644
--- a/docs/decisions.md
+++ b/docs/decisions.md
@@ -673,8 +673,8 @@ when a source carries it.
 Sweden fits whole in 700 KB; every US place of 10,000 would pass a megabyte and fetch
 1,200 counties of TIGER files, so the threshold sits where the two countries match in
 size, and `--min-population` and `--streets-per-locality` on the import scripts build a
-fuller set. The two trees add about 20 ms to loading the shipped set whole, which took
-about 45 ms.
+fuller set. Loading the whole shipped set took about 45 ms, about 20 ms of it the two
+trees.
 
 Withdrawn by the maintainer on 2026-10-03; `todo.md` item 78 replaces it.
 
diff --git a/shipped.go b/shipped.go
index 27a9c1e..b8aafd7 100644
--- a/shipped.go
+++ b/shipped.go
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ func unloadedReads(root *folder, dir []string, scope nodeScope) []unloadedCatego
 	return out
 }
 
-// loadShipped loads the shipped categories wanted, every category they read, and the table
-// family of each one it loads, then binds them as a whole load binds.
+// loadShipped loads the shipped categories wanted and, for each category it loads, every
+// category it reads and its table family, then binds all it loaded as a whole load binds.
 // TestEveryShippedCategoryLoadsAlone reaches each category, so a failure here means a stale
 // index.
 func loadShipped(root *folder, wanted []unloadedCategory) {