diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
index 7472082..b57aebe 100644
--- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex
+++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -4365,7 +4365,7 @@
 
 Generators are a simple and powerful tool for creating iterators.  They are
 written like regular functions but use the \keyword{yield} statement whenever
-they want to return data.  Each time the \method{next()} is called, the
+they want to return data.  Each time \method{next()} is called, the
 generator resumes where it left-off (it remembers all the data values and
 which statement was last executed).  An example shows that generators can
 be trivially easy to create:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b7a1ade..6cd3dcb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
   interpreter shutdown with another exception from attempting to handle the
   original exception.
 
-- Added Decimal.py per PEP 327.
+- Added decimal.py per PEP 327.
 
 - Bug #981299: rsync is now a recognized protocol in urlparse that uses a
   "netloc" portion of a URL.