--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
 
     Moreover, when unary operators occur in expressions, Octave will
     also try to do the operation in-place if it's argument is a
-    temporary expresssion.
+    temporary expression.
 
  ** The effect of comparison operators (<, >, <=, and >=) applied to
     complex numbers has changed to be consistent with the strict
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@
     The performance of sort has been improved, especially when sorting
     indices are requested.  An efficient built-in issorted
     implementation was added.  The sortrows function now uses a more
-    efficient algorithm, especially in the homegeneous case.  The lookup
+    efficient algorithm, especially in the homogeneous case.  The lookup
     function is now a built-in function performing a binary search,
     optimized for long runs of close elements.  Lookup also works with
     cell arrays of strings.