diff --git a/bin/ed/ed.1 b/bin/ed/ed.1
index 27f8b36aebbe..f7f468304ffb 100644
--- a/bin/ed/ed.1
+++ b/bin/ed/ed.1
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ A typical command might look like:
 ,s/\fIold\fR/\fInew\fR/g
 .RE
 .sp
-which replaces all occurences of the string
+which replaces all occurrences of the string
 .I old
 with
 .IR new .
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ The
 .I `n'
 suffix, where
 .I n
-is a postive number, causes only the
+is a positive number, causes only the
 .IR n th
 match to be replaced.
 It is an error if no substitutions are performed on any of the addressed