diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 118cf1a4135..ea207963594 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ This is a source checkout of the Jetty webserver.
 
 To build, use:
 
-  mvn install
-
+  mvn install 
+ 
 The jetty distribution will be built in
 
   jetty-distribution/target/distribution
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ The first build may take a long time as maven downloads all the
 dependencies.
 
 The tests do a lot of stress testing, and on some machines it is 
-neccessary to set the file descriptor limit to greater than 2048
-for the tests to all pass successfully.
+necessary to set the file descriptor limit to greater than 2048
+for the tests to all pass successfully.