diff --git a/pep-0538.txt b/pep-0538.txt
index 5c0f6966c..badd23535 100644
--- a/pep-0538.txt
+++ b/pep-0538.txt
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ relying on that setting change.
 
 As a result of that change, the ``LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8`` legacy fallback was
 removed from the list of UTF-8 locales tried as a coercion target, with CPython
-instead rely solely on the C locale text encoding bypass in such cases.
+instead relying solely on the C locale text encoding bypass in such cases.
 
 
 Motivation
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ for ``en_AU.UTF-8``), and one encoded with GB-18030 (the default encoding for
 ``zh_CN.gb18030``)::
 
     $ python3 -c 'open("utf8.txt", "wb").write("ℙƴ☂ℌøἤ\n".encode("utf-8"))'
-    $ python3 -c 'open("gb18030.txt", "wb"); f.write("ℙƴ☂ℌøἤ\n".encode("gb18030"))'
+    $ python3 -c 'open("gb18030.txt", "wb").write("ℙƴ☂ℌøἤ\n".encode("gb18030"))'
 
 On disk, we can see that these are two very different files::