diff --git a/docs/designers.sgml b/docs/designers.sgml
index 88ef944e..24244732 100644
--- a/docs/designers.sgml
+++ b/docs/designers.sgml
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ Dealers Will Hear Car Talk at Noon.
             or any string made up of month day year (parsable by strtotime).
             Designers can then use date_format to have complete control of the
             formatting of the date. If the date passed to date_format is empty
-			and a second paramter is passed, that will be used as the date to
+			and a second parameter is passed, that will be used as the date to
 			format.
 			</para>
 <example>
diff --git a/docs/programmers.sgml b/docs/programmers.sgml
index 22bb341b..47630dab 100644
--- a/docs/programmers.sgml
+++ b/docs/programmers.sgml
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ $smarty->clear_assign(array("Name","Address","Zip"));</programlisting>
 				This clears the cache for a specific template. If you have
 				multiple caches for this template, you can clear a specific
 				cache by supplying the cache id as the second parameter. You
-				can also pass a compile id as a third paramter. You can "group"
+				can also pass a compile id as a third parameter. You can "group"
 				templates together so they can be removed as a group. See the
 				<link linkend="caching">caching section</link> for more
 				information. As an optional fourth parameter, you can supply a