diff --git a/examples/errorfiles/500.http b/examples/errorfiles/500.http
index ebf7d47f1..9c3be965c 100644
--- a/examples/errorfiles/500.http
+++ b/examples/errorfiles/500.http
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
500 Internal Server Error
-An internal server error occured.
+An internal server error occurred.
diff --git a/examples/transparent_proxy.cfg b/examples/transparent_proxy.cfg
index 0ecb20d40..b514ae3b2 100644
--- a/examples/transparent_proxy.cfg
+++ b/examples/transparent_proxy.cfg
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ backend TransparentBack_http
# /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.ipfw=1
# ipfw add 10 fwd localhost tcp from 192.168.0.40 80 to any in recv em0
#
-# the above does the folowing:
+# the above does the following:
# - load the ipfw kernal module
# - set pf as the outer firewall to keep control of routing packets for example to route them to a non-default gateway
# - enable ipfw
-# - set a rule to catches reply traffic on em0 comming from the webserver
+# - set a rule to catches reply traffic on em0 coming from the webserver
#
# --- Step 2 ---
# To also make the client connection transparent its possible to redirect incomming requests to HAProxy with a pf rule: