diff --git a/docs/commands/zq.md b/docs/commands/zq.md
index a4844a9401..414cb55930 100644
--- a/docs/commands/zq.md
+++ b/docs/commands/zq.md
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Note here that the query `1+1` [implies](../language/pipeline-model.md#implied-o
 | `line`    |  no  | One string value per input line |
 | `parquet` |  yes | [Apache Parquet](https://github.com/apache/parquet-format) |
 | `tsv`     |  yes | [TSV - Tab-Separated Values](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values) |
-| `vng`     |  yes | [Super Columnar](../formats/csup.md) |
+| `csup`    |  yes | [Super Columnar](../formats/csup.md) |
 | `zeek`    |  yes | [Zeek Logs](https://docs.zeek.org/en/master/logs/index.html) |
 | `zjson`   |  yes | [ZJSON - Zed over JSON](../formats/zjson.md) |
 | `bsup`    |  yes | [Super Binary](../formats/bsup.md) |
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ typically omit quotes around field names.
 | `table`   | (described [below](#simplified-text-outputs)) |
 | `text`    | (described [below](#simplified-text-outputs)) |
 | `tsv`     | [TSV - Tab-Separated Values](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values) |
-| `vng`     | [Super Columnar](../formats/csup.md) |
+| `csup`    | [Super Columnar](../formats/csup.md) |
 | `zeek`    | [Zeek Logs](https://docs.zeek.org/en/master/logs/index.html) |
 | `zjson`   | [ZJSON - Zed over JSON](../formats/zjson.md) |
 | `bsup`    | [Super Binary](../formats/bsup.md) |
diff --git a/docs/formats/csup.md b/docs/formats/csup.md
index c2176e91f3..55377db18d 100644
--- a/docs/formats/csup.md
+++ b/docs/formats/csup.md
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ sidebar_label: Super Columnar
 
 # Super Columnar Specification
 
-Super Columnar is a file format for columnar data based on
-the [super data model](zed.md) where the fields from a stream of
-records are stacked to form columns.
+Super Columnar is a file format based on
+the [super data model](zed.md) where data is stacked to form columns.
 Its purpose is to provide for efficient analytics and search over
 bounded-length sequences of [super-structured data](./README.md#2-a-super-structured-pattern) that is stored in columnar form.
 
@@ -327,7 +326,7 @@ compression based on segment compression).
 
 After the reassembly section is a Super Binary stream with a single record defining
 the "trailer" of the Super Columnar file.  The trailer provides a magic field
-indicating the format, a version number,
+indicating the file format, a version number,
 the size of the segment threshold for decomposing segments into frames,
 the size of the skew threshold for flushing all segments to storage when
 the memory footprint roughly exceeds this threshold,