diff --git a/R/write_vc.R b/R/write_vc.R
index 461cdd4..67b11a9 100644
--- a/R/write_vc.R
+++ b/R/write_vc.R
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 #' @export
 #' @family storage
 #' @template example-io
-#' @note `..generic` is a reserved name for the metadata and cannot be used as
+#' @note `..generic` is a reserved name for the metadata and is a forbidden
 #' column name in a `data.frame`.
 write_vc <- function(
   x, file, root = ".", sorting, strict = TRUE, optimize = TRUE, na = "NA",
diff --git a/man/write_vc.Rd b/man/write_vc.Rd
index fac4835..8bfa62c 100644
--- a/man/write_vc.Rd
+++ b/man/write_vc.Rd
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ data as a plain text tab separated file. The \code{".yml"} contains the metadata
 on the columns in plain text YAML format. See \code{vignette("plain text", package = "git2rdata")} for more details on the implementation.
 }
 \note{
-\code{..generic} is a reserved name for the metadata and cannot be used as
+\code{..generic} is a reserved name for the metadata and is a forbidden
 column name in a \code{data.frame}.
 }
 \examples{