2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/scheme.el b/lisp/progmodes/scheme.el
index c427eddf871..be4c23c781f 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/scheme.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/scheme.el
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 ;; for instance, at <URL:http://www.sil.org/sgml/related.html#dsssl>.]
 ;; All these Lisp-ish modes vary basically in details of the language
 ;; syntax they highlight/indent/index, but dsssl-mode uses "^;;;" as
-;; the page-delimiter since ^L isn't normally a legal SGML character.
+;; the page-delimiter since ^L isn't normally a valid SGML character.
 ;;
 ;; For interacting with a Scheme interpreter See also `run-scheme' in
 ;; the `cmuscheme' package and also the implementation-specific
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
index ed6a6ed464b..edf2aab7955 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
@@ -3757,7 +3757,7 @@ Both should not be used to define a buffer-local dictionary."
         ;; any character other than a space.  Not rigorous enough.
         (while (re-search-forward " *\\([^ ]+\\)" end t)
           (setq string (match-string-no-properties 1))
-          ;; This can fail when string contains a word with illegal chars.
+          ;; This can fail when string contains a word with invalid chars.
           ;; Error handling needs to be added between ispell and emacs.
           (if (and (< 1 (length string))
                    (equal 0 (string-match ispell-casechars string)))