diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0b41cd50b..b4e5ff579 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # just Django, but for the purposes of development and testing
 # there are a number of packages that are useful to install.
 
-# Laying these out as seperate requirements files, allows us to
-# only included the relevent sets when running tox, and ensures
+# Laying these out as separate requirements files, allows us to
+# only included the relevant sets when running tox, and ensures
 # we are only ever declaring our dependencies in one place.
 
 -r requirements/requirements-optionals.txt