diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 668d1d9..256dcef 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-The development of tasksh was made possible by the significant
-contributions of the following people:
+The development of tasksh was made possible by the significant contributions of
+the following people:
 
   Paul Beckingham    (Principal Author)
   Federico Hernandez (Principal Author)
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 5c86fbc..44f86bd 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-tasksh - a shell/frontend for ithe command line task list manager taskwarrior.
+tasksh - a shell/frontend for the command line task list manager taskwarrior.
 
 Copyright 2006 - 2014, Paul Beckingham, Federico Hernandez.
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5af5213..c484eed 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,5 +14,4 @@ Thank you for taking a look at tasksh!!
 
 ---
 
-Tasksh is released under the MIT license. For details check the LICENSE
-file.
+Tasksh is released under the MIT license. For details check the LICENSE file.