diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 9c680024c7..bcbc74d66b 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -163,6 +163,8 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5825. Provide diagnostics for reducers killed during ramp down
     (Gera Shegalov via jlowe)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5836. Fix typo in RandomTextWriter (Akira AJISAKA via jeagles)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/RandomTextWriter.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/RandomTextWriter.java
index c3f6476d7b..eb35704450 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/RandomTextWriter.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/RandomTextWriter.java
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ public class RandomTextWriter extends Configured implements Tool {
   }
 
   /**
-   * A random list of 100 words from /usr/share/dict/words
+   * A random list of 1000 words from /usr/share/dict/words
    */
   private static String[] words = {
                                    "diurnalness", "Homoiousian",
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/RandomTextWriter.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/RandomTextWriter.java
index c5709411d9..c1f3f5eb15 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/RandomTextWriter.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/RandomTextWriter.java
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ public class RandomTextWriter extends Configured implements Tool {
   }
 
   /**
-   * A random list of 100 words from /usr/share/dict/words
+   * A random list of 1000 words from /usr/share/dict/words
    */
   private static String[] words = {
                                    "diurnalness", "Homoiousian",