diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS
index 40f7059b897..355752e6b24 100644
--- a/ld/NEWS
+++ b/ld/NEWS
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ Changes in 2.39:
   --enable-warn-rwx-segments=no
      will make --no-warn-rwx-segments enabled by default.
      
-  --enable-defaul-execstack=no
+  --enable-default-execstack=no
      will stop the creation of an executable stack simply because an input file
      is missing a .note.GNU-stack section, even on architectures where this
-     ehaviour is the default.
+     behaviour is the default.
 
 * TYPE=<type> is now supported in an output section description to set the
   section type value.