diff --git a/vfs/help.go b/vfs/help.go
index 444f400fc..21652ba8a 100644
--- a/vfs/help.go
+++ b/vfs/help.go
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.
 
 Using the !--dir-cache-time! flag, you can control how long a
 directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
-backend. Changes made through the mount will appear immediately or
+backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
 invalidate the cache.
 
     --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ read of the modification time takes a transaction.
     --no-checksum     Don't compare checksums on up/download.
     --no-modtime      Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
     --no-seek         Don't allow seeking in files.
-    --read-only       Mount read-only.
+    --read-only       Only allow read-only access.
 
 Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
 than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ on disk cache file.
 
 When using VFS write caching (!--vfs-cache-mode! with value writes or full),
 the global flag !--transfers! can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of
-modified files from cache (the related global flag !--checkers! have no effect on mount).
+modified files from the cache (the related global flag !--checkers! has no effect on the VFS).
 
     --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
 
@@ -253,22 +253,22 @@ It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.
 Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS
 file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.
 
-The !--vfs-case-insensitive! mount flag controls how rclone handles these
-two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the mounted
-file system as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on
+The !--vfs-case-insensitive! VFS flag controls how rclone handles these
+two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote
+as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the
 command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.
 
 The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case
-different than what is stored on mounted file system. If an argument refers
+different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers
 to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing
 file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same
 name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will
 transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file
 is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is
-controlled by an underlying mounted file system.
+controlled by the underlying remote.
 
 Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target)
-may differ from case sensitivity of a file system mounted by rclone (the source).
+may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source).
 The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.
 
 If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends
diff --git a/vfs/vfsflags/vfsflags.go b/vfs/vfsflags/vfsflags.go
index d1341a239..dec1cbed7 100644
--- a/vfs/vfsflags/vfsflags.go
+++ b/vfs/vfsflags/vfsflags.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ func AddFlags(flagSet *pflag.FlagSet) {
 	flags.BoolVarP(flagSet, &Opt.NoSeek, "no-seek", "", Opt.NoSeek, "Don't allow seeking in files")
 	flags.DurationVarP(flagSet, &Opt.DirCacheTime, "dir-cache-time", "", Opt.DirCacheTime, "Time to cache directory entries for")
 	flags.DurationVarP(flagSet, &Opt.PollInterval, "poll-interval", "", Opt.PollInterval, "Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable)")
-	flags.BoolVarP(flagSet, &Opt.ReadOnly, "read-only", "", Opt.ReadOnly, "Mount read-only")
+	flags.BoolVarP(flagSet, &Opt.ReadOnly, "read-only", "", Opt.ReadOnly, "Only allow read-only access")
 	flags.FVarP(flagSet, &Opt.CacheMode, "vfs-cache-mode", "", "Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full")
 	flags.DurationVarP(flagSet, &Opt.CachePollInterval, "vfs-cache-poll-interval", "", Opt.CachePollInterval, "Interval to poll the cache for stale objects")
 	flags.DurationVarP(flagSet, &Opt.CacheMaxAge, "vfs-cache-max-age", "", Opt.CacheMaxAge, "Max age of objects in the cache")