diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3b6270c..8814c30 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ tasks.
 
 - do not try to invent new set of high level programming abstractions
   (yet): use a low level programming model (IPython.parallel) to finely
-  control the cluster elements and messages transfered and help identify
+  control the cluster elements and messages transferred and help identify
   what are the practical underlying constraints in distributed machine
   learning setting.
 
diff --git a/pyrallel/model_selection.py b/pyrallel/model_selection.py
index 241ce81..0429d2d 100644
--- a/pyrallel/model_selection.py
+++ b/pyrallel/model_selection.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def reset(self):
         # Abort any other previously scheduled tasks
         self.abort()
 
-        # Schedule a new batch of evalutation tasks
+        # Schedule a new batch of evaluation tasks
         self.task_groups, self.all_parameters = [], []
 
         # Collect temporary files: