diff --git a/docs/coding-guidelines.md b/docs/coding-guidelines.md
index bacbfe9509e..473d7020fcf 100644
--- a/docs/coding-guidelines.md
+++ b/docs/coding-guidelines.md
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ Concurrency adds complexity. Concurrency adds overhead due to synchronization.
 Thus unless proven to be a bottleneck, don't make things concurrent. As an example
 the hierarchical `NetworkBehaviour` state machine runs sequentially. It is easy
 to debug as it runs sequentially. Thus far there has been no proof that
-shows a speed up when running it concurrently.
+shows a speed-up when running it concurrently.
 
 ## Use `async/await` for sequential execution only
 
diff --git a/protocols/gossipsub/CHANGELOG.md b/protocols/gossipsub/CHANGELOG.md
index 0bfee4d3e91..e9663c4c39c 100644
--- a/protocols/gossipsub/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/protocols/gossipsub/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
 
 - Move from `open-metrics-client` to `prometheus-client` (see [PR 2442]).
 
-- Emit gossip of all non empty topics (see [PR 2481]).
+- Emit gossip of all non-empty topics (see [PR 2481]).
 
 - Merge NetworkBehaviour's inject_\* paired methods (see [PR 2445]).