diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
index 3e1d9fde3fc6067..9de5f462fc28c6a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ Control flow
 
    ``try`` blocks which are followed by ``except*`` clauses. The attributes are the
    same as for :class:`Try` but the :class:`ExceptHandler` nodes in ``handlers``
-   are interpreted as ``except*`` blocks rather then ``except``.
+   are interpreted as ``except*`` blocks rather than ``except``.
 
    .. doctest::
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index 52ca502012b1570..0b8c244482ac574 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -1835,7 +1835,7 @@ always available. Unless explicitly noted otherwise, all variables are read-only
    returned by the :func:`open` function.  Their parameters are chosen as
    follows:
 
-   * The encoding and error handling are is initialized from
+   * The encoding and error handling are initialized from
      :c:member:`PyConfig.stdio_encoding` and :c:member:`PyConfig.stdio_errors`.
 
      On Windows, UTF-8 is used for the console device.  Non-character