diff --git a/libfwupdplugin/fu-common.c b/libfwupdplugin/fu-common.c
index 4d6be8a49..2dcabb451 100644
--- a/libfwupdplugin/fu-common.c
+++ b/libfwupdplugin/fu-common.c
@@ -3316,7 +3316,7 @@ fu_battery_state_to_string (FuBatteryState battery_state)
  * This function will always return the same pointer for a given #GBytes.
  *
  * If the size of @bytes is zero, then %NULL is returned and the @error is set,
- * which differs in behaviour to that of g_bytes_get_data().
+ * which differs in behavior to that of g_bytes_get_data().
  *
  * This may be useful when calling g_mapped_file_new() on a zero-length file.
  *
diff --git a/plugins/uefi-capsule/README.md b/plugins/uefi-capsule/README.md
index 8000ed4d1..15c571ddf 100644
--- a/plugins/uefi-capsule/README.md
+++ b/plugins/uefi-capsule/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ If you don't want or need this functionality you can use the
 `-Dplugin_uefi_capsule=false` option.
 
 When this plugin is enabled, the companion UEFI binary may also be built from the [fwupd-efi](https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd-efi) project if not already present on the filesystem.
-This behavior can be overriden using the meson option `-Defi_binary=false`.
+This behavior can be overridden using the meson option `-Defi_binary=false`.
 
 For this companion binary to work with secure boot, it will need to be signed by an authority trusted with shim and/or the host environment.