diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 192fd933..dbf06537 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ shadow-4.0.14 -> shadow-4.0.15						13-03-2006
 - chage: added missing \n on display password status if password must be
   changed,
 - useradd: fixed allow non-unique UID (http://bugs.debian.org/351281),
-- variouse code cleanups for make possible compilation of shadow with -Wall
+- various code cleanups for make possible compilation of shadow with -Wall
   -Werror (by Alexander Gattin <xrgtn@yandex.ru>),
 - su: move exit() outside libmisc/shell.c::shell() for handle shell() errors
   on higher level (now is better visable where some programs exit with 126
@@ -1356,7 +1356,7 @@ shadow-4.0.3 => shadow-4.0.4						14-01-2004
 
 shadow-4.0.2 => shadow-4.0.3						 13-03-2002
 
-- added variouse cs, de, fr, id, it, ko man pages found mainly in national
+- added various cs, de, fr, id, it, ko man pages found mainly in national
   man pages translations projects (this documents are not synced with
   current en version but you know .. "Documentations is lik sex. When it is
   good it very very good. Whet it is bad it is better than nothing."). Any