diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/json/stream.go b/src/pkg/encoding/json/stream.go
index 67f6be87b21..1928abadb7d 100644
--- a/src/pkg/encoding/json/stream.go
+++ b/src/pkg/encoding/json/stream.go
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ func NewEncoder(w io.Writer) *Encoder {
 	return &Encoder{w: w}
 }
 
-// Encode writes the JSON encoding of v to the connection.
+// Encode writes the JSON encoding of v to the stream.
 //
 // See the documentation for Marshal for details about the
 // conversion of Go values to JSON.