diff --git a/docs/installing-solidity.rst b/docs/installing-solidity.rst
index f8393f2d8..ad27e5286 100644
--- a/docs/installing-solidity.rst
+++ b/docs/installing-solidity.rst
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ you should fork Solidity and add your personal fork as a second remote:
 .. code:: bash
 
     cd solidity
-    git remote add personal git@github.com:\<username\>/solidity.git
+    git remote add personal git@github.com:[username]/solidity.git
 
 
 Prerequisites - macOS
diff --git a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst
index 3da3c5474..9ee334cff 100644
--- a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst
+++ b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Suffixes like ``seconds``, ``minutes``, ``hours``, ``days``, ``weeks`` and
 ``years`` after literal numbers can be used to convert between units of time where seconds are the base
 unit and units are considered naively in the following way:
 
- * ``1 == 1 second``
+ * ``1 == 1 seconds``
  * ``1 minutes == 60 seconds``
  * ``1 hours == 60 minutes``
  * ``1 days == 24 hours``