diff --git a/prologue/hostreqs.xml b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
index d9eae3c54..c58996e70 100644
--- a/prologue/hostreqs.xml
+++ b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
@@ -85,10 +85,10 @@
       <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that we specify
       that version when building <application>glibc</application> in Chapter 6
       at the recommendation of the developers.  This can be overridden if
-      desired but at least a 2.6.0 kerenl is required because thread-local
+      desired but at least a 2.6.0 kernel is required because thread-local
       storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX
       Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel
-      isn't at least a 2.6.x version compiled with a 3.0 or later release of
+      isn't at least a 2.6.0 version compiled with a 3.0 or later release of
       GCC.</para>
 
       <para>If the host kernel is either earlier than 2.6.18, or it was not