diff --git a/doc/html/faq.shtml b/doc/html/faq.shtml
index 1482f382f36c8000b46cfa76d5efa7b1c6775fa3..1be5266a37a7dafdd1dd642fa92c408d1fb30fb7 100644
--- a/doc/html/faq.shtml
+++ b/doc/html/faq.shtml
@@ -1849,7 +1849,7 @@ show columns from "tux_assoc_table" where Field='is_def';
 "Node unexpectedly rebooted"?</b></a></br>
 This is indicative of the slurmctld daemon running on the cluster's head node
 as well as the slurmd daemon on the compute node when the compute node reboots.
-If you which to prevent this condition from setting the node into a DOWN state
+If you want to prevent this condition from setting the node into a DOWN state
 then configure ReturnToService to 2. See the slurm.conf man page for details.
 Otherwise use the scontrol or sview to manually return the node to service.</p>
 
diff --git a/doc/man/man1/sacct.1 b/doc/man/man1/sacct.1
index e2274b3ba268719e41fd198d3b6208a3b9b3e7ab..0987cbeb9a87359f10e7cf0070bcbed4038533e2 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/sacct.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/sacct.1
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ jobs not currently running.
 The following state designators are valid and multiple state names
 may be specified using comma separators. Either the short or long form of
 the state name may be used (e.g. \f3CA\fP or \f3CANCELLED\fP) and the
-the the name is case insensitive (e.g. \f3ca\fP and \f3CA\fP both work).
+name is case insensitive (e.g. \f3ca\fP and \f3CA\fP both work).
 .RS
 .TP "20"
 \fBBF  BOOT_FAIL\fR