diff --git a/ChangeLog-2007 b/ChangeLog-2007
index a335938ea..078e833b3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog-2007
+++ b/ChangeLog-2007
@@ -2606,7 +2606,7 @@
 
 2007-05-20  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
-	stty: diagnose an invalid hex value in 35-colon commmand-line argument
+	stty: diagnose an invalid hex value in 35-colon command-line argument
 	* NEWS: Mention this.
 	* src/stty.c (strtoul_tcflag_t, strtoul_cc_t): New functions.
 	(recover_mode): Use those functions (not sscanf), to parse the
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4ac4413d4..808061c69 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   loss of the contents of a/f.
 
   stty no longer silently accepts certain invalid hex values
-  in its 35-colon commmand-line argument
+  in its 35-colon command-line argument
 
 ** Bug fixes