diff --git a/man2/vmsplice.2 b/man2/vmsplice.2
index 03ccdb476..d324e3421 100644
--- a/man2/vmsplice.2
+++ b/man2/vmsplice.2
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ vmsplice \- splice user pages to/from a pipe
 .\" after a successful write), but that is often easy to do.
 If
 .I fd
-is opened for writting, the
+is opened for writing, the
 .BR vmsplice ()
 system call maps
 .I nr_segs
@@ -180,9 +180,10 @@ this limit is 1024.
 .PP
 .\" commit 6a14b90bb6bc7cd83e2a444bf457a2ea645cbfe7
 .BR vmsplice ()
-only really supports true splicing from user memory to a pipe. In another
-direction, it actually just copies the data to userspace. But this makes
-the interface nice and symmetric and enables people to build on splice,
+really supports true splicing only from user memory to a pipe.
+In the opposite direction, it actually just copies the data to userspace.
+But this makes the interface nice and symmetric and enables people to build on
+.BR vmsplice ()
 with room for future improvement in performance.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR splice (2),