diff --git a/pep-0540.txt b/pep-0540.txt
index a25d9695a..82afd388c 100644
--- a/pep-0540.txt
+++ b/pep-0540.txt
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ arising in production services due to mismatched assumptions regarding
 text encodings.  It's one thing to emit mojibake to a user's terminal
 while listing a directory, but something else entirely to store that in
 a system manifest in a database, or to send it to a remote client
-attempting to retreive files from the system.
+attempting to retrieve files from the system.
 
 Since different group of users have different expectations, there is no
 silver bullet which solves all issues at once. Last but not least,
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ instead using the locale encoding (with ``strict`` or
 ``surrogateescape`` error handler depending on the case).
 
 The "normal" UTF-8 mode uses ``surrogateescape`` on the standard input
-and output streams and openeded files, as well as on all operating
+and output streams and opened files, as well as on all operating
 system interfaces. This is the mode implicitly activated by the POSIX
 locale.