diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d0dbf9386..d77b6919a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ dependencies, it can make use of a few libraries to add to it:
 
 - pthreads (non-Windows) to enable threadsafe access as well as multi-threaded pack generation
 - OpenSSL (non-Windows) to talk over HTTPS and provide the SHA-1 functions
-- LibSSH2 to enable the ssh transport
+- LibSSH2 to enable the SSH transport
 - iconv (OSX) to handle the HFS+ path encoding peculiarities
 
 Building libgit2 - Using CMake
diff --git a/examples/network/fetch.c b/examples/network/fetch.c
index 03f1541a4..8d882095b 100644
--- a/examples/network/fetch.c
+++ b/examples/network/fetch.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ int fetch(git_repository *repo, int argc, char **argv)
 	// Update the references in the remote's namespace to point to the
 	// right commits. This may be needed even if there was no packfile
 	// to download, which can happen e.g. when the branches have been
-	// changed but all the neede objects are available locally.
+	// changed but all the needed objects are available locally.
 	if (git_remote_update_tips(remote, NULL, NULL) < 0)
 		return -1;