--- libev/ev.pod	2008/11/05 03:52:15	1.214
+++ libev/ev.pod	2008/11/05 21:44:21	1.215
@@ -420,8 +420,8 @@
 as in libev having to destroy and recreate the epoll object, which can
 take considerable time and thus should be avoided.
 
-All this means that, in practise, C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> can be as fast or
-faster then epoll for maybe up to a hundred file descriptors, depending on
+All this means that, in practice, C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> can be as fast or
+faster than epoll for maybe up to a hundred file descriptors, depending on
 the usage. So sad.
 
 While nominally embeddable in other event loops, this feature is broken in