diff --git a/Doc/library/glob.rst b/Doc/library/glob.rst
index 50f38a4d365..d16b001f52c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/glob.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/glob.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ For example, ``'[?]'`` matches the character ``'?'``.
    symlinks are included in the results (as in the shell).
 
    If *recursive* is true, the pattern "``**``" will match any files and zero or
-   more directories and subdirectories.  If the pattern is followed by a
+   more directories and subdirectories.  If the pattern is followed by an
    ``os.sep``, only directories and subdirectories match.
 
    .. note::
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asdl_parser.py b/Lib/test/test_asdl_parser.py
index 7a6426a4d35..15bc684904c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_asdl_parser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_asdl_parser.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class TestAsdlParser(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUpClass(cls):
         # Loads the asdl module dynamically, since it's not in a real importable
         # package.
-        # Parses Python.asdl into a ast.Module and run the check on it.
+        # Parses Python.asdl into an ast.Module and run the check on it.
         # There's no need to do this for each test method, hence setUpClass.
         sys.path.insert(0, parser_dir)
         loader = importlib.machinery.SourceFileLoader(
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5fb54d893e3..9626c49fe61 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2483,7 +2483,7 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #20170: Convert posixmodule to use Argument Clinic.
 
-- Issue #21539: Add a *exists_ok* argument to `Pathlib.mkdir()` to mimic
+- Issue #21539: Add an *exists_ok* argument to `Pathlib.mkdir()` to mimic
   `mkdir -p` and `os.makedirs()` functionality.  When true, ignore
   FileExistsErrors.  Patch by Berker Peksag.
 
diff --git a/Modules/_ssl.c b/Modules/_ssl.c
index 5d20e7c4141..4f4379fb447 100644
--- a/Modules/_ssl.c
+++ b/Modules/_ssl.c
@@ -3273,7 +3273,7 @@ _servername_callback(SSL *s, int *al, void *args)
     ssl = SSL_get_app_data(s);
     assert(PySSLSocket_Check(ssl));
 
-    /* The servername callback expects a argument that represents the current
+    /* The servername callback expects an argument that represents the current
      * SSL connection and that has a .context attribute that can be changed to
      * identify the requested hostname. Since the official API is the Python
      * level API we want to pass the callback a Python level object rather than