diff --git a/Lib/test/test_lzma.py b/Lib/test/test_lzma.py
index 4669ee26511..20d85828e65 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_lzma.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_lzma.py
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ class FileTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_read_truncated(self):
         # Drop stream footer: CRC (4 bytes), index size (4 bytes),
-        # flags (2 bytes) and magic number (2 bytes).
+        # flags (2 bytes) and magic number (2 bytes).
         truncated = COMPRESSED_XZ[:-12]
         with LZMAFile(BytesIO(truncated)) as f:
             self.assertRaises(EOFError, f.read)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
index 7f93bfb842e..8ef391791f7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ class MalformedInputTest(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(str(e), 'unclosed token: line 2, column 0')
 
     def test2(self):
-        # \xc2\x85 is UTF-8 encoded U+0085 (NEXT LINE)
+        # \xc2\x85 is UTF-8 encoded U+0085 (NEXT LINE)
         xml = b"<?xml version\xc2\x85='1.0'?>\r\n"
         parser = expat.ParserCreate()
         try:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0aa2e1883d2..a805b48f1c0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
 
-- Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.
+- Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.
 
 - Issue #16723: httplib.HTTPResponse no longer marked closed when the connection
   is automatically closed.