diff --git a/src/xdocs/config_header.xml b/src/xdocs/config_header.xml
index 987de35c9..a0741fb1f 100755
--- a/src/xdocs/config_header.xml
+++ b/src/xdocs/config_header.xml
@@ -270,12 +270,12 @@ line 14: ^ \*/
         </p>
 
         <p>
-          Different programming languages have different comment synatx rules, but all of them
+          Different programming languages have different comment syntax rules, but all of them
           start a comment with a non-word character. Hence you can often use the non-word character
           class to abstract away the concrete comment syntax and allow checking the header for
           different languages with a single header definition.
           For example, consider the following header specification (note that this is not
-          the full Apache licence header):
+          the full Apache license header):
         </p>
         <source>
 line 1: ^#!
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ line 6: ^\W*$
           Unix shell scripts, or the xml file header of XML files.
           Set the multiline property to "1, 2" so these lines can be ignored for file types
           where they do no apply.
-          Lines 3 throgh 6 define the actual header content. Note how lines 2, 4 and 5 use escapes
+          Lines 3 through 6 define the actual header content. Note how lines 2, 4 and 5 use escapes
           for characters that have special regexp semantics.
         </p>
       </subsection>