diff --git a/specs/template.rst b/specs/template.rst
index fe9eea19..44aade2b 100644
--- a/specs/template.rst
+++ b/specs/template.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Some notes about using this template:
   are preferred. http://asciiflow.com/ is a very nice tool to assist with
   making ascii diagrams. blockdiag is another tool. These are described below.
   If you require an image (screenshot) for your BP, attaching that to the BP
-  and checking it in is also accepted. However, text representations are prefered.
+  and checking it in is also accepted. However, text representations are preferred.
 
 * Diagram examples
 
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ Tacker's attribute map facility should have the following:
       inconsistent parameters supplied to the method, or when an
       instance is not in an appropriate state for the request to
       succeed. Errors caused by syntactic problems covered by the JSON
-      schema defintion do not need to be included.
+      schema definition do not need to be included.
 
   * URL for the resource