diff --git a/wm-spec/x512.html b/wm-spec/x512.html
index b9b48c96fa..73a6ca4fb0 100644
--- a/wm-spec/x512.html
+++ b/wm-spec/x512.html
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ NAME="AEN587"
 >Clarified that <SPAN
 CLASS="QUOTE"
 >"mapping order"</SPAN
-> refers to inital mapping 
+> refers to initial mapping 
 and specify the directions of both orders.
 			</P
 ></LI
diff --git a/workspace.cpp b/workspace.cpp
index d34f18483e..ec14c91748 100644
--- a/workspace.cpp
+++ b/workspace.cpp
@@ -625,9 +625,9 @@ bool Workspace::workspaceEvent( XEvent * e )
 	    // If the system tray gets destroyed, the system tray
 	    // icons automatically get unmapped, reparented and mapped
 	    // again to the closest non-client ancestor due to
-	    // QXEmbed's SaveSet feature. Unfortunatly with kicker
+	    // QXEmbed's SaveSet feature. Unfortunately with kicker
 	    // this closest ancestor is not the root window, but our
-	    // decoration, so we reparent explicitely back to the root
+	    // decoration, so we reparent explicitly back to the root
 	    // window.
 	    XEvent ev;
 	    WId w = e->xunmap.window;