diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
index 7ee18a263..447aef987 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-11-16  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* pathnames.sgml (pathnames-specialchars): Fix typos.
+
 2009-11-12  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-os): Mention Windows 7 and 2008 R2.
diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml
index e570d9040..f909bd533 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml
+++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml
@@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ access files with trailing dots and spaces without problems.</para>
 
 <para>Additionally, some characters are disallowed in filenames on Windows
 filesystems.  These forbidden characters are the ASCII control characters
-from ASCII value 1 to 31, plus the following charcters which have a special
-menaing in the Win32 API:</para>
+from ASCII value 1 to 31, plus the following characters which have a special
+meaning in the Win32 API:</para>
 
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