diff --git a/LDP/howto/docbook/Assembly-HOWTO.xml b/LDP/howto/docbook/Assembly-HOWTO.xml
index 2b7dc9f2..6c64a2e9 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/docbook/Assembly-HOWTO.xml
+++ b/LDP/howto/docbook/Assembly-HOWTO.xml
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ As an interesting historic remark, on
 
 "There's no reason that assemblers have to have awful syntax.  About
 30 years ago I used Niklaus Wirth's PL360, which was basically a S/360
-assembler with Algol syntax and a a little syntactic sugar like while
+assembler with Algol syntax and a little syntactic sugar like while
 loops that turned into the obvious branches.  It really was an
 assembler, e.g., you had to write out your expressions with explicit
 assignments of values to registers, but it was nice.  Wirth used it to
@@ -3293,7 +3293,7 @@ Rewrite of sgml source.
 <authorinitials>konst</authorinitials>
 <revremark>
 Discussion about libc or not libc continues.
-New web pointers and and overall updates.
+New web pointers and overall updates.
 </revremark>
 </revision>