diff --git a/src/flake8/checker.py b/src/flake8/checker.py
index 2bbd6f2..00cff39 100644
--- a/src/flake8/checker.py
+++ b/src/flake8/checker.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 SERIAL_RETRY_ERRNOS = {
     # ENOSPC: Added by sigmavirus24
     # > On some operating systems (OSX), multiprocessing may cause an
-    # > ENOSPC error while trying to trying to create a Semaphore.
+    # > ENOSPC error while trying to create a Semaphore.
     # > In those cases, we should replace the customized Queue Report
     # > class with pep8's StandardReport class to ensure users don't run
     # > into this problem.
diff --git a/src/flake8/main/application.py b/src/flake8/main/application.py
index 111ed0c..15c2477 100644
--- a/src/flake8/main/application.py
+++ b/src/flake8/main/application.py
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ class Application:
             if parse_options is None:
                 continue
 
-            # XXX: ideally we would't have two forms of parse_options
+            # XXX: ideally we wouldn't have two forms of parse_options
             try:
                 parse_options(
                     self.option_manager,