diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 8639a96..1287c9c 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Changelog
 v0.5 (2013-09-09)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-- Switched from raising Django's ``ImproperlyConfigured`` excpetion on errors
+- Switched from raising Django's ``ImproperlyConfigured`` exception on errors
   to standard ``ValueError`` to prevent hiding those errors when Django
   specially handles the first.
 
diff --git a/docs/cookbook.rst b/docs/cookbook.rst
index 89a2470..35abbe1 100644
--- a/docs/cookbook.rst
+++ b/docs/cookbook.rst
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Celery
 ------
 
 Given Celery's way to load Django settings in worker processes you should
-probably just add the following to the **begin** of your settings module::
+probably just add the following to the **beginning** of your settings module::
 
     from configurations import importer
     importer.install()