diff --git a/notes/mzscheme/HISTORY b/notes/mzscheme/HISTORY
index b96ece36d4..778e236b1e 100644
--- a/notes/mzscheme/HISTORY
+++ b/notes/mzscheme/HISTORY
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Generalized network-address handling, includes IPv6
 Added ephemerons
 0.0 and -0.0 are different by eqv?
 Added keyword values (#: prefix) and keyword? predicate
-Added syntax-language+country
+Added system-language+country
 Added current-preserved-thread-cell-values
 Added #%variable-reference
 MzLib: added object-method-arity-includes? to class.ss
diff --git a/notes/mzscheme/MzScheme_300.txt b/notes/mzscheme/MzScheme_300.txt
index 39a8b1798d..3f5468368a 100644
--- a/notes/mzscheme/MzScheme_300.txt
+++ b/notes/mzscheme/MzScheme_300.txt
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ Typically, the correct printing of a path use the current locale's
 encoding, but there's no guarantee that the path is well-formed using
 the current locale's encoding.
 
-To mediate these view of paths, MzScheme now supplies a "path"
+To mediate this view of paths, MzScheme now supplies a "path"
 datatype, with operations `path->string', `string->path',
 `bytes->string', and `bytes->path'. Use `path->string' to print a path
 to the user, but use `path->bytes' to marshal a path (e.g., for saving