diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f2a61fc3..b2736518 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ shadow-4.0.14 -> shadow-4.0.15						13-03-2006
     added audit_logger() prototype),
   - useradd: fixed excess audit_logger() argument,
 - chage: added missing \n on display password status if password must be
-  chaged,
+  changed,
 - useradd: fixed allow non-unique UID (http://bugs.debian.org/351281),
 - variouse code cleanups for make possible compilation of shadow with -Wall
   -Werror (by Alexander Gattin <xrgtn@yandex.ru>),
diff --git a/src/chage.c b/src/chage.c
index c1c10910..05d2349b 100644
--- a/src/chage.c
+++ b/src/chage.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static void list_fields (void)
 	/*
 	 * Start with the easy numbers - the number of days before the
 	 * password can be changed, the number of days after which the
-	 * password must be chaged, the number of days before the password
+	 * password must be changed, the number of days before the password
 	 * expires that the user is told, and the number of days after the
 	 * password expires that the account becomes unusable.
 	 */