diff --git a/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
index f543567dbff6..82e057d4b8cf 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ Set to
 .Dq YES
 if you want to ignore
 .Xr amd 8
-mounts when comparing against yesterdays file system mounts in the
+mounts when comparing against yesterday's file system mounts in the
 .Va daily_status_security_chkmounts_enable
 check.
 .It Va daily_status_security_chkuid0_enable
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ Note, if the
 .Va pkg_version
 variable is set to
 .Dq portversion ,
-it will also be neccessary to arrange that the correct INDEX file is specified
+it will also be necessary to arrange that the correct INDEX file is specified
 using environment variables and that
 .Dq pkg_version_index
 is cleared in