diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick b/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick
index 419288bb6a98..df4b126c02be 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick
@@ -1457,7 +1457,7 @@ An inquisitive virgin named Dora
 Asked the man who started to bore 'er:
 	"Do you mean birds and bees
 	Go through antics like these,
-To suppy us our fauna and flora?"
+To supply us our fauna and flora?"
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 An irate young lady named Booker
 Told her husband, "You beast, I'm no hooker!
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/startrek b/games/fortune/datfiles/startrek
index 760d04770733..73f24b1bf42f 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/startrek
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/startrek
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ the other side of the coin"
 Change is the essential process of all existence.
 		-- Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", stardate 5730.2
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-Compassion -- that's the one things no machine ever had.  Maybe it's
+Compassion -- that's the one thing no machine ever had.  Maybe it's
 the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.
 		-- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
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