diff --git a/contrib/verify-binaries/README.md b/contrib/verify-binaries/README.md
index d1157f7c02..c62d760e1a 100644
--- a/contrib/verify-binaries/README.md
+++ b/contrib/verify-binaries/README.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ threshold of at least 10 trusted signatures:
     --min-good-sigs 10 pub 22.0-x86
 ```
 
-If you only want to download the binaries of certain platform, add the corresponding suffix, e.g.:
+If you only want to download the binaries for a certain platform, add the corresponding suffix, e.g.:
 
 ```sh
 ./contrib/verify-binaries/verify.py pub 24.0.1-darwin
diff --git a/contrib/verify-binaries/test.py b/contrib/verify-binaries/test.py
index b7988b86ef..22d718ece3 100755
--- a/contrib/verify-binaries/test.py
+++ b/contrib/verify-binaries/test.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ def main():
     expect_code(run_verify("", "pub", '0.32.awefa.12f9h'), 11, "Malformed version should fail")
     expect_code(run_verify('--min-good-sigs 20', "pub", "22.0"), 9, "--min-good-sigs 20 should fail")
 
-    print("- testing multisig verification (22.0)", flush=True)
+    print("- testing verification (22.0)", flush=True)
     _220 = run_verify("--json", "pub", "22.0")
     try:
         result = json.loads(_220.stdout.decode())
diff --git a/contrib/verify-binaries/verify.py b/contrib/verify-binaries/verify.py
index 1160494aa1..d0749f503f 100755
--- a/contrib/verify-binaries/verify.py
+++ b/contrib/verify-binaries/verify.py
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ def verify_published_handler(args: argparse.Namespace) -> ReturnCode:
 
     # download binaries
     for _, binary_filename in hashes_to_verify:
-        log.info(f"downloading {binary_filename}")
+        log.info(f"downloading {binary_filename} to {WORKINGDIR}")
         success, output = download_with_wget(
             HOST1 + remote_dir + binary_filename, binary_filename)