diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index e25d042ff9d..f0827265899 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -1266,7 +1266,7 @@ Example:
 :class:`tzinfo` Objects
 -----------------------
 
-:class:`tzinfo` is an abstract base clase, meaning that this class should not be
+:class:`tzinfo` is an abstract base class, meaning that this class should not be
 instantiated directly.  You need to derive a concrete subclass, and (at least)
 supply implementations of the standard :class:`tzinfo` methods needed by the
 :class:`datetime` methods you use.  The :mod:`datetime` module does not supply
diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 502305ddf8c..3fda6a4a68f 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1096,7 +1096,9 @@ Basic customization
       is printed to ``sys.stderr`` instead.  Also, when :meth:`__del__` is invoked in
       response to a module being deleted (e.g., when execution of the program is
       done), other globals referenced by the :meth:`__del__` method may already have
-      been deleted.  For this reason, :meth:`__del__` methods should do the absolute
+      been deleted or in the process of being torn down (e.g. the import
+      machinery shutting down).  For this reason, :meth:`__del__` methods
+      should do the absolute
       minimum needed to maintain external invariants.  Starting with version 1.5,
       Python guarantees that globals whose name begins with a single underscore are
       deleted from their module before other globals are deleted; if no other