diff --git a/manual/edit.rst b/manual/edit.rst
index d37fda8d1d..21a2397175 100644
--- a/manual/edit.rst
+++ b/manual/edit.rst
@@ -513,6 +513,10 @@ Words are shown with the number of times they occur in the book and the
 language the word belongs to. Language information is taken from the books
 metadata and from ``lang`` attributes in the HTML files. This allows the spell
 checker to work well even with books that contain text in multiple languages.
+For example, in the following HTML extract, the word color will be checked
+using American English and the word colour using British English::
+
+    <div lang="en_US">color <span lang="en_GB">colour</span></div>
 
 .. note::
     You can double click a word to highlight the next occurrence of that word
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/spell.py b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/spell.py
index 4f9b63f6a8..37d2209603 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/spell.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/tweak_book/spell.py
@@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ def find_next(word, locations, current_editor, current_editor_name,
     if current_editor_name not in files:
         current_editor = current_editor_name = None
     else:
-        # Re-order the list of locations to search so that we search int he
+        # Re-order the list of locations to search so that we search in the
         # current editor first
         lfiles = list(files)
         idx = lfiles.index(current_editor_name)