diff --git a/docs/common-patterns.rst b/docs/common-patterns.rst
index acef13b72..52319be0d 100644
--- a/docs/common-patterns.rst
+++ b/docs/common-patterns.rst
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Notice that, in this example, an attacker could trap the
 contract into an unusable state by causing ``richest`` to be
 the address of a contract that has a fallback function
 which fails (e.g. by using ``revert()`` or by just
-conssuming more than the 2300 gas stipend). That way,
+consuming more than the 2300 gas stipend). That way,
 whenever ``transfer`` is called to deliver funds to the
 "poisoned" contract, it will fail and thus also ``becomeRichest``
 will fail, with the contract being stuck forever.
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ unless you declare make your state variables ``public``.
 
 Furthermore, you can restrict who can make modifications
 to your contract's state or call your contract's
-functions and this is what this page is about.
+functions and this is what this section is about.
 
 .. index:: function;modifier