diff --git a/lib/Cake/Routing/Router.php b/lib/Cake/Routing/Router.php
index f5ae3847d..489e178a3 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Routing/Router.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Routing/Router.php
@@ -245,19 +245,19 @@ class Router {
  * Connects a new Route in the router.
  *
  * Routes are a way of connecting request URLs to objects in your application. At their core routes
- * are a set or regular expressions that are used to match requests to destinations.
+ * are a set of regular expressions that are used to match requests to destinations.
  *
  * Examples:
  *
  * `Router::connect('/:controller/:action/*');`
  *
- * The first parameter will be used as a controller name while the second is used as the action name.
+ * The first token ':controller' will be used as a controller name while the second is used as the action name.
  * the '/*' syntax makes this route greedy in that it will match requests like `/posts/index` as well as requests
  * like `/posts/edit/1/foo/bar`.
  *
  * `Router::connect('/home-page', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'home'));`
  *
- * The above shows the use of route parameter defaults. And providing routing parameters for a static route.
+ * The above shows the use of route parameter defaults, and providing routing parameters for a static route.
  *
  * {{{
  * Router::connect(
@@ -269,6 +269,9 @@ class Router {
  *
  * Shows connecting a route with custom route parameters as well as providing patterns for those parameters.
  * Patterns for routing parameters do not need capturing groups, as one will be added for each route params.
+ * 
+ * $defaults is merged with the results of parsing the request URL to form the final routing destination and its
+ * parameters. This destination is expressed as an associative array by Router. See the output of {@link parse()}.
  *
  * $options offers four 'special' keys. `pass`, `named`, `persist` and `routeClass`
  * have special meaning in the $options array.
@@ -304,6 +307,7 @@ class Router {
  *   shifted into the passed arguments, supplying patterns for routing parameters and supplying the name of a
  *   custom routing class.
  * @see routes
+ * @see parse().
  * @return array Array of routes
  * @throws RouterException
  */