diff --git a/newspaper/configuration.py b/newspaper/configuration.py
index c0960a6b..5a3e51f5 100644
--- a/newspaper/configuration.py
+++ b/newspaper/configuration.py
@@ -76,13 +76,13 @@ def del_language(self):
 
     def set_language(self, language):
         """Language setting must be set in this method b/c non-occidental
-        (western) langauges require a seperate stopwords class.
+        (western) languages require a seperate stopwords class.
         """
         if not language or len(language) != 2:
-            raise Exception("Your input language must be a 2 char langauge code, \
+            raise Exception("Your input language must be a 2 char language code, \
                 for example: english-->en \n and german-->de")
 
-        # If explicitly set langauge, don't use meta
+        # If explicitly set language, don't use meta
         self.use_meta_language = False
 
         # Set oriental language stopword class
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def set_language(self, language):
         self.stopwords_class = self.get_stopwords_class(language)
 
     language = property(get_language, set_language,
-                        del_language, "langauge prop")
+                        del_language, "language prop")
 
     def get_stopwords_class(self, language):
         if language == 'ko':