diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogreader.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogreader.c
index 4b03577dcc..f39f8044a9 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogreader.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogreader.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ WALOpenSegmentInit(WALOpenSegment *seg, WALSegmentContext *segcxt,
 /*
  * Begin reading WAL at 'RecPtr'.
  *
- * 'RecPtr' should point to the beginnning of a valid WAL record.  Pointing at
+ * 'RecPtr' should point to the beginning of a valid WAL record.  Pointing at
  * the beginning of a page is also OK, if there is a new record right after
  * the page header, i.e. not a continuation.
  *
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/copyfrom.c b/src/backend/commands/copyfrom.c
index 40a54ad0bd..f366a818a1 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/copyfrom.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/copyfrom.c
@@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@ BeginCopyFrom(ParseState *pstate,
 
 	tupDesc = RelationGetDescr(cstate->rel);
 
-	/* process commmon options or initialization */
+	/* process common options or initialization */
 
 	/* Generate or convert list of attributes to process */
 	cstate->attnumlist = CopyGetAttnums(tupDesc, cstate->rel, attnamelist);