diff --git a/docs/asgi.rst b/docs/asgi.rst
index dcd57d2..95b6595 100644
--- a/docs/asgi.rst
+++ b/docs/asgi.rst
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ so that a querying client only sees some portion of the messages. Calling
 ``receive`` on these channels does not guarantee that you will get the
 messages in order or that you will get anything if the channel is non-empty.
 
-*Single-reader channel* names contain an question mark
+*Single-reader channel* names contain a question mark
 (``?``) character in order to indicate to the channel layer that it must make
 these channels appear globally consistent. The ``?`` is always preceded by
 the main channel name (e.g. ``http.response.body``) and followed by a
diff --git a/docs/inshort.rst b/docs/inshort.rst
index 655f2fd..848b3a9 100644
--- a/docs/inshort.rst
+++ b/docs/inshort.rst
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ and WebSockets) and *worker servers* (ones that run your Django code) to
 fit your use case.
 
 The ASGI spec allows a number of different *channel layers* to be plugged in
-between these two components, with difference performance characteristics, and
+between these two components, with different performance characteristics, and
 it's designed to allow both easy sharding as well as the ability to run
 separate clusters with their own protocol and worker servers.