diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index f483759..5957956 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -6718,7 +6718,7 @@
 
 - Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork().
 
-- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the name of the
+- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in losing the name of the
   script being traced.  Patch by Eli Bendersky.
 
 - Issue #9282: Fixed --listfuncs option of trace.py.  Thanks Eli Bendersky for
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f393d68..ba7e54d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@
   engine friendly) error messages when "exec" and "print" are used as
   statements.
 
-- Issue #21642: If the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written
+- Issue #21642: In the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written
   with no space between itself and the ``else`` keyword (e.g. ``True if 42else
   False``) to be valid syntax.