Address review comments

Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: sethmlarson

Doc/deprecations/pending-removal-in-future.rst

@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ although there is currently no date scheduled for their removal.
 * :mod:`os`: Calling :func:`os.register_at_fork` in a multi-threaded process.
 
 * :mod:`os.path`: :func:`os.path.commonprefix` is deprecated, use either
-  :func:`os.path.commonpath` or :func:`string.commonprefix` instead.
+  :func:`os.path.commonpath` for path prefixes or
+  :func:`string.commonprefix` for string prefixes.
 
 * :class:`!pydoc.ErrorDuringImport`: A tuple value for *exc_info* parameter is
   deprecated, use an exception instance.