diff --git a/MySQLdb/doc/MySQLdb-FAQ.sgml b/MySQLdb/doc/MySQLdb-FAQ.sgml
index fc0b607..bfd0225 100644
--- a/MySQLdb/doc/MySQLdb-FAQ.sgml
+++ b/MySQLdb/doc/MySQLdb-FAQ.sgml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ There may also be a link to some user-contributed binaries on the web site.
 Trouble with ZMySQLDA
 <sect1>I installed MySQLdb but ZMySQLDA can't find it.
 <p>Probably you installed a binary version of Zope which comes with
-it's own Python interpreter. You will have to compile MySQLdb against
+its own Python interpreter. You will have to compile MySQLdb against
 that particular Python installation. Find out where it's python binary
 lives and use that to run setup.py.
 </sect1>
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ performance a bit.
 Read the MySQL docs, particularly the C API, for an overview.
 <item>
 Read the MySQLdb docs. This shows how the C API is transliterated
-into Python. Plus some examplesa are in there.
+into Python. Plus some examples are in there.
 <item>
 Read the MySQLdb sources, particularly MySQLdb/cursors.py. That one
 file contains most of the gory details, particularly in the
diff --git a/MySQLdb/doc/MySQLdb.sgml b/MySQLdb/doc/MySQLdb.sgml
index f28313e..641439a 100644
--- a/MySQLdb/doc/MySQLdb.sgml
+++ b/MySQLdb/doc/MySQLdb.sgml
@@ -505,8 +505,8 @@ Compatibility note: The older <ref id="MySQLmodule"> defines this method,
       the additional supplied cursor classes in the <ref id="usage">
       section.
 
-<tag>begin()</tag> Explicitly start a transactions. Normally you do
-      not need to use this: Executing a query implicitely starts a new
+<tag>begin()</tag> Explicitly start a transaction. Normally you do
+      not need to use this: Executing a query implicitly starts a new
       transaction if one is not in progress. If AUTOCOMMIT is on, you
       can use <tt/begin()/ to temporarily turn it off. AUTOCOMMIT will
       resume after the next <tt/commit()/ or <tt/rollback/.