diff --git a/Objects/exceptions.c b/Objects/exceptions.c
index d03aada..aaff0bc 100644
--- a/Objects/exceptions.c
+++ b/Objects/exceptions.c
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@
        solution, given __new__ takes a variable number of arguments,
        is to defer arg parsing and initialization to __init__.
 
-       But when __new__ is overriden as well, it should call our __new__
+       But when __new__ is overridden as well, it should call our __new__
        with the right arguments.
 
        (see http://bugs.python.org/issue12555#msg148829 )
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index b146da9..f11a082 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -9323,7 +9323,7 @@
                             PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(substring) *
                                 PyUnicode_KIND(substring));
         }
-        /* otherwise we have to compare each character by first accesing it */
+        /* otherwise we have to compare each character by first accessing it */
         else {
             /* We do not need to compare 0 and len(substring)-1 because
                the if statement above ensured already that they are equal