diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b82329e..b39bd37 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ async fn main() {
 
 A lot of the implemenation details are dealt with by the `#[state_machine]` macro, but it's always valuable to understand what's happening behind the scenes. Furthermore, you'll see that the generated code is actually pretty straight-forward and could easily be written by hand, so if you prefer to avoid using macro's this is totally feasible.
 
-The goal of `statig` is to represent a hierarchical state machine. Conceptually a hierarchical state machine can be tought of as tree.
+The goal of `statig` is to represent a hierarchical state machine. Conceptually a hierarchical state machine can be thought of as a tree.
 
 ```
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diff --git a/statig/src/lib.rs b/statig/src/lib.rs
index 3461338..8223981 100644
--- a/statig/src/lib.rs
+++ b/statig/src/lib.rs
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@
 //!
 //! A lot of the implementation details are dealt with by the `#[state_machine]` macro, but it's always valuable to understand what's happening behind the scenes. Furthermore, you'll see that the generated code is actually pretty straight-forward and could easily be written by hand, so if you prefer to avoid using macro's this is totally feasible.
 //!
-//! The goal of `statig` is to represent a hierarchical state machine. Conceptually a hierarchical state machine can be thought of as tree.
+//! The goal of `statig` is to represent a hierarchical state machine. Conceptually a hierarchical state machine can be thought of as a tree.
 //!
 //! ```text
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