diff --git a/telnet/telnet.c b/telnet/telnet.c
index 36d1d21..45df4ed 100644
--- a/telnet/telnet.c
+++ b/telnet/telnet.c
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ dontoption(option)
 
 /*
  * Given a buffer returned by tgetent(), this routine will turn
- * the pipe seperated list of names in the buffer into an array
+ * the pipe separated list of names in the buffer into an array
  * of pointers to null terminated names.  We toss out any bad,
  * duplicate, or verbose names (names with spaces).
  */
diff --git a/telnetd/termstat.c b/telnetd/termstat.c
index 46b20ff..e94720c 100644
--- a/telnetd/termstat.c
+++ b/telnetd/termstat.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ clientstat(code, parm1, parm2)
 		/*
 		 * Change terminal speed as requested by client.
 		 * We set the receive speed first, so that if we can't
-		 * store seperate receive and transmit speeds, the transmit
+		 * store separate receive and transmit speeds, the transmit
 		 * speed will take precedence.
 		 */
 		tty_rspeed(parm2);