diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 364ebb4f..7d9d7481 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ If you want to contribute to (or just hack on) Pinniped (we encourage it!),
 first check out our [Code of Conduct](doc/code-of-conduct.md), and then [our
 contributing doc](doc/contributing.md).
 
-## Licence
+## License
 
-Pinniped is open source and licenced under Apache License Version 2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) file.
+Pinniped is open source and licensed under Apache License Version 2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) file.
 
 Copyright 2020 VMware, Inc.
diff --git a/deploy/README.md b/deploy/README.md
index 3e7228a9..08e7c58e 100644
--- a/deploy/README.md
+++ b/deploy/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 This example deployment uses `ytt` and `kapp` from [k14s.io](https://k14s.io/).
 
 If you would rather not install these command-line tools directly on your machine,
-you can use alternatively get the most recent version of this container image:
+you can alternatively use the most recent version of this container image:
 https://hub.docker.com/r/k14s/image/tags
 
 1. Fill in the values in [values.yml](values.yaml)