diff --git a/i18n/README.md b/i18n/README.md
index faad234..b2a036c 100644
--- a/i18n/README.md
+++ b/i18n/README.md
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ mvn test                  # runs every scenario and rewrites output/01-11
 
 The tests pin the JVM to `-Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8` (see `pom.xml`) so the
 transcripts do not depend on the machine they were generated on, and run each test class in its own JVM
-(`reuseForks=false`) because Tomcat reads the JVM's default locale once.
+(`reuseForks=false`) because a test that changes the JVM's default locale once leaked it into another test's transcript.
 
 ## Profiles
 
diff --git a/i18n/src/test/java/com/ankurm/i18n/SystemLocaleFallbackTests.java b/i18n/src/test/java/com/ankurm/i18n/SystemLocaleFallbackTests.java
index 4f475e9..3c24b96 100644
--- a/i18n/src/test/java/com/ankurm/i18n/SystemLocaleFallbackTests.java
+++ b/i18n/src/test/java/com/ankurm/i18n/SystemLocaleFallbackTests.java
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ import java.util.Locale;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 
 /**
- * Transcript 02. Changes the JVM's default locale, and Tomcat reads that default once per JVM, so this class runs in its own
- * JVM (surefire reuseForks=false) and cannot leak a Hindi default into the "no Accept-Language header" row of transcript 01.
+ * Transcript 02. Changes the JVM's default locale. In an earlier run a Hindi default set here leaked into the
+ * "no Accept-Language header" row of transcript 01, so this class runs in its own JVM (surefire reuseForks=false).
  */
 class SystemLocaleFallbackTests {