diff --git a/www/notes/1/ocaml-to-racket.scrbl b/www/notes/1/ocaml-to-racket.scrbl
index 348a03b1..19f5125f 100644
--- a/www/notes/1/ocaml-to-racket.scrbl
+++ b/www/notes/1/ocaml-to-racket.scrbl
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ OCaml also has a notation for writing functions:
 This make an anonymous function that consumes two integers and
 produces their sum.
 
-To apply it, we can write it justapoxed with arguments:
+To apply it, we can write it replaced with arguments:
 
 @ocaml-repl{
 # (fun x y -> x + y) 3 4;;
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ It is possible to convert between symbols and strings:
 (string->symbol "fred")
 ]
 
-There's also a convient function that produces a symbol that is guaranteed
+There's also a convenient function that produces a symbol that is guaranteed
 to have not been used so far each time you call it:
 
 @ex[
diff --git a/www/notes/1/what-is-a-compiler.scrbl b/www/notes/1/what-is-a-compiler.scrbl
index 494e8624..3ec8943c 100644
--- a/www/notes/1/what-is-a-compiler.scrbl
+++ b/www/notes/1/what-is-a-compiler.scrbl
@@ -144,10 +144,9 @@ See @secref{Syllabus}.
 
 Write @emph{a compiler} for @tt{MiniRacket -> x86}
 
-But Rome wasn’t built in a day … and neither is any serious software.
+But the Eiffel Tower wasn’t built in a day … and neither is any serious software.
 
 @image{img/Eiffel.jpg}
-Rome wasn’t built in a day
 
 So we will write @emph{many} compilers: