diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 17f925456e..eb8dc6ae66 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ This is discouraged, as it produces ugly hard-to-maintain commit history.
 
 ## Commit message rules
 
-When commiting your changes into the repository you may want to follow some
+When committing your changes into the repository you may want to follow some
 rules to make the git history more readable and consistent:
 
 * Start the message capitalized (only the first character must be in uppercase)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7e2d0135a7..dbc346d98f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Rizin is a fork of the radare2 reverse engineering framework with a focus on
 usability, working features and code cleanliness.
 
 Rizin is portable and it can be used to analyze binaries, disassemble code,
-debug programs, as a forensics tool, as a scriptable command-line hexadecimal
+debug programs, as a forensic tool, as a scriptable command-line hexadecimal
 editor able to open disk files, and much more!
 
 To learn more on Rizin you may want to read the