diff --git a/src/exotic-sizes.md b/src/exotic-sizes.md
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 and allocators typically [require a non-zero size][alloc].
 
 Note that references to ZSTs (including empty slices), just like all other
-references, must be non-null and suitably aligned. However, dereferencing a
-null pointer to a ZST is not [undefined behavior][ub], unlike pointers to
-other types.
+references, must be non-null and suitably aligned. However, loading or storing
+through a null pointer to a ZST is not [undefined behavior][ub], unlike
+pointers to other types.
 
 [alloc]: ../std/alloc/trait.GlobalAlloc.html#tymethod.alloc
 [ub]: what-unsafe-does.html