diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 532a466a20..61274bf425 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Important changes for packagers:
    its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
    not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
    Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
- * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
+ * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
    variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
  * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
  * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
diff --git a/bin/override.c b/bin/override.c
index 705bb83607..b216dfeda0 100644
--- a/bin/override.c
+++ b/bin/override.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*****************************************************************************
- * override.c: overriden function calls for VLC media player
+ * override.c: overridden function calls for VLC media player
  *****************************************************************************
  * Copyright (C) 2010 Rémi Denis-Courmont
  *