diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4a0c8e1..96c1caf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Seat management takes care of mediating access to shared devices (graphics, inpu
 
 ### seatd
 
-A seat management deamon, that does everything it needs to do. Nothing more, nothing less. Depends only on libc.
+A seat management daemon, that does everything it needs to do. Nothing more, nothing less. Depends only on libc.
 
 ### libseat
 
diff --git a/seatd/server.c b/seatd/server.c
index 37235bc..0a08f50 100644
--- a/seatd/server.c
+++ b/seatd/server.c
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ int server_handle_connection(int fd, uint32_t mask, void *data) {
 	if (mask & (EVENT_ERROR | EVENT_HANGUP)) {
 		shutdown(fd, SHUT_RDWR);
 		server->running = false;
-		log_errorf("Server socket recieved an error: %s", strerror(errno));
+		log_errorf("Server socket received an error: %s", strerror(errno));
 		return -1;
 	}