diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 75541560b847d4e37553fd612b67f523e1bd9fd1..cd8bc1314002d87e95ddb86444bfd61b4722a0be 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ is set, we internally update the TLS logging level as well.
 
 ### Additional logging targets
 
-Note that the the `loggingTargets` attribute says "excluding ska_logging defaults".
+Note that the `loggingTargets` attribute says "excluding ska_logging defaults".
 Even when empty, you will still have the logging to stdout that is already provided
 by the ska_logging library.  If you want to forward logs to other targets, then you can use
 this attribute.  Since we also want logging to TLS, it should include the `"tango::logger"`
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ method from an instance of a `tango.DeviceProxy` object.
 If you want file and syslog targets, you could do something like:
 `proxy.loggingTargets = ["file::/tmp/my.log", "syslog::udp://server.domain:514"]`.
 
-**Note:**  There is a limit of 4 additional handlers.  That the maximum length
+**Note:**  There is a limit of 4 additional handlers.  That is the maximum length
 of the spectrum attribute. We could change this if there is a reasonable use
 case for it.
 
diff --git a/tests/test_base_device.py b/tests/test_base_device.py
index a4ede7cca6504549e44834940f75399737277472..d220092b03409b966a7c9483b888fb67d36bbf71 100644
--- a/tests/test_base_device.py
+++ b/tests/test_base_device.py
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ class TestSKABaseDevice(object):
 
             mocked_creator.side_effect = null_creator
 
-            # test adding console target
+            # test console target
             tango_context.device.loggingTargets = ["console::cout"]
             assert tango_context.device.loggingTargets == ("console::cout", )
             mocked_creator.assert_called_once_with("console::cout", mock.ANY)