diff --git a/internal/snmp/testdata/gosmi/tableMib b/internal/snmp/testdata/gosmi/tableMib
index f09098958..3faf92761 100644
--- a/internal/snmp/testdata/gosmi/tableMib
+++ b/internal/snmp/testdata/gosmi/tableMib
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ ifSpecific OBJECT-TYPE
             object refers to a document defining objects
             specific to ethernet.  If this information is not
             present, its value should be set to the OBJECT
-            IDENTIFIER { 0 0 }, which is a syntatically valid
+            IDENTIFIER { 0 0 }, which is a syntactically valid
             object identifier, and any conformant
             implementation of ASN.1 and BER must be able to
             generate and recognize this value."
@@ -1249,7 +1249,7 @@ ipRouteInfo OBJECT-TYPE
             specified in the route's ipRouteProto value.  If
             this information is not present, its value should
             be set to the OBJECT IDENTIFIER { 0 0 }, which is
-            a syntatically valid object identifier, and any
+            a syntactically valid object identifier, and any
             conformant implementation of ASN.1 and BER must be
             able to generate and recognize this value."
     ::= { ipRouteEntry 13 }
diff --git a/plugins/common/shim/README.md b/plugins/common/shim/README.md
index e58249608..304213c89 100644
--- a/plugins/common/shim/README.md
+++ b/plugins/common/shim/README.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ execd plugins:
   an input gathering plugin, you may see data right away, or you may have to hit enter
   first, or wait for your poll duration to elapse, but the metrics will be written to
   STDOUT. Ctrl-C to end your test.
-  If you're testig a processor or output manually, you can still do this but you
+  If you're testing a processor or output manually, you can still do this but you
   will need to feed valid metrics in on STDIN to verify that it is doing what you
   want. This can be a very valuable debugging technique before hooking it up to
   Telegraf.