diff --git a/docs/middleware.txt b/docs/middleware.txt
index d2e2f63877d..39019caf1e7 100644
--- a/docs/middleware.txt
+++ b/docs/middleware.txt
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ Adds a few conveniences for perfectionists:
   have a valid urlpattern for ``foo.com/bar``, and do have a valid urlpattern
   for ``foo.com/bar/``.
 
-  **New in Django development version:** The behaviour of ``APPEND_SLASH`` has
-  changed slightly in the development version (it didn't used to check to see
-  if the pattern was matched in the URL patterns).
+  **New in Django development version:** The behavior of ``APPEND_SLASH`` has
+  changed slightly in the development version. It didn't used to check to see
+  whether the pattern was matched in the URLconf.
 
   If ``PREPEND_WWW`` is ``True``, URLs that lack a leading "www." will be
   redirected to the same URL with a leading "www."
diff --git a/docs/templates.txt b/docs/templates.txt
index a32ab27e341..e91d1b3e4c4 100644
--- a/docs/templates.txt
+++ b/docs/templates.txt
@@ -565,17 +565,17 @@ autoescape
 
 **New in Django development version**
 
-Control the current auto-escaping behaviour. This tag takes either ``on`` or
+Control the current auto-escaping behavior. This tag takes either ``on`` or
 ``off`` as an argument and that determines whether auto-escaping is in effect
 inside the block.
 
 When auto-escaping is in effect, all variable content has HTML escaping applied
 to it before placing the result into the output (but after any filters have
 been applied). This is equivalent to manually applying the ``escape`` filter
-attached to each variable.
+to each variable.
 
-The only exceptions are variables that are already marked as 'safe' from
-escaping, either by the code that populated the variable, or because it has
+The only exceptions are variables that are already marked as "safe" from
+escaping, either by the code that populated the variable, or because it has had
 the ``safe`` or ``escape`` filters applied.
 
 block