diff --git a/sorting/monthYear.js b/sorting/monthYear.js
index b9ed0ea..63f2e6f 100644
--- a/sorting/monthYear.js
+++ b/sorting/monthYear.js
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 /**
- * Often a list of data which has titles in it (books, albums etc) will have
- * the word "the" at the start of some individual titles, which you don't want
- * to include in your sorting order. This plug-in will strip the word "the"
- * from the start of a string and sort on what is left.
+ * This sorting plug-in will sort, in calendar order, data which
+ * is in the format "MM YY".
  *  @name Month / year sorting
  *  @anchor monthYear
  *  @author Michael Motek
  */
 
 jQuery.extend( jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort, {
-	"monthYear-pre": function ( a ) {
-		return new Date('01 '+a);
+	"monthYear-pre": function ( s ) {
+		var a = s.split(' ');
+		// Date uses the American "MM DD YY" format
+		return new Date(a[0]+' 01 '+a[1]);
 	},
 
 	"monthYear-asc": function ( a, b ) {
diff --git a/sorting/natural.js b/sorting/natural.js
index 3554fe6..44ac229 100644
--- a/sorting/natural.js
+++ b/sorting/natural.js
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 /**
- * Often a list of data which has titles in it (books, albums etc) will have
- * the word "the" at the start of some individual titles, which you don't want
- * to include in your sorting order. This plug-in will strip the word "the"
- * from the start of a string and sort on what is left.
+ * Data can often be a complicated mix of numbers and letters (file names
+ * are a common example) and sorting them in a natural manner is quite a
+ * difficult problem. Fortunately a deal of work has already been done in
+ * this area by other authors - the following plug-in uses the naturalSort()
+ * function by Jim Palmer (<a href="http://www.overset.com/2008/09/01/javascript-natural-sort-algorithm-with-unicode-support/">download it here</a>)
+ * to provide natural sorting in DataTables.
  *  @name Natural sorting
  *  @anchor natrual
  *  @author <a href="http://www.overset.com/2008/09/01/javascript-natural-sort-algorithm/">Jim Palmer</a>