diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog_old.txt b/doc/ChangeLog_old.txt
index 214a26d..1a16d72 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog_old.txt
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog_old.txt
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@
 2002-06-13  Martin Sjögren  <martin@strakt.com>
 
 	* src/ssl/context.c: Changed global_verify_callback so that it uses
-	  PyObject_IsTrue instead of requring ints.
+	  PyObject_IsTrue instead of requiring ints.
 	* Added pymemcompat.h to make the memory management uniform and
 	  backwards-compatible.
 	* src/util.h: Added conditional definition of PyModule_AddObject and
diff --git a/tests/test_ssl.py b/tests/test_ssl.py
index f36890d..87bd18c 100644
--- a/tests/test_ssl.py
+++ b/tests/test_ssl.py
@@ -1483,7 +1483,7 @@
     @pytest.mark.parametrize('callback', [None, 1.0, 'mode', ('foo', 'bar')])
     def test_set_verify_wrong_callable_arg(self, callback):
         """
-        `Context.set_verify` raises `TypeError` if the the second argument
+        `Context.set_verify` raises `TypeError` if the second argument
         is not callable.
         """
         context = Context(TLSv1_METHOD)