diff --git a/docs/releases/1.11.1.txt b/docs/releases/1.11.1.txt
index e2f49a3c03..f29e23785f 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.11.1.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.11.1.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,5 @@ Bugfixes
 
 * Fixed crash in ``BaseGeometryWidget.subwidgets()`` (:ticket:`28039`).
 
-* Re-raised the original exception when ``cursor.execute()`` fails and the
-  cleanup code ``cursor.close()`` fails as well, instead of raising the cleanup
-  code failure (:ticket:28091).
+* Fixed exception reraising in ORM query execution when ``cursor.execute()``
+  fails and the subsequent ``cursor.close()`` also fails (:ticket:`28091`).
diff --git a/docs/spelling_wordlist b/docs/spelling_wordlist
index ce3c4c23ad..303d4d3b7a 100644
--- a/docs/spelling_wordlist
+++ b/docs/spelling_wordlist
@@ -678,6 +678,7 @@ repo
 reportable
 reprojection
 reraise
+reraising
 resampling
 reST
 reStructuredText