diff --git a/21-shell/README.md b/21-shell/README.md
index 2921c0c..e1a0611 100644
--- a/21-shell/README.md
+++ b/21-shell/README.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ we implement the boot sequence for a different machine.
 There are more switches for the `CFLAGS` on the `Makefile`, since we will now
 start creating higher-level functions for our C library and we don't want
 the compiler to include any external code if we make a mistake with a declaration.
-We also added some flags to turn warnings into errors, since an apparantly minor mistake
+We also added some flags to turn warnings into errors, since an apparently minor mistake
 converting pointers can blow up later on. This also forced us to modify some misc pointer
 declarations in our code.
 
diff --git a/23-fixes/README.md b/23-fixes/README.md
index e9c4acb..4289413 100644
--- a/23-fixes/README.md
+++ b/23-fixes/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ We add  `-ffreestanding` when compiling `.o` files, which includes `kernel_entry
 Before, we disabled libgcc (not libc) through the use of `-nostdlib` and we didn't re-enable
 it for linking. Since this is tricky, we'll delete `-nostdlib`
 
-`-nostdinc` was also pased to gcc, but we will need it for step 3, so let's delete it.
+`-nostdinc` was also passed to gcc, but we will need it for step 3, so let's delete it.
 
 
 2. kernel.c `main()` function