Fix typo and improve wording a bit.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4675e5f709d48f3885cf9d80ba93c6e50c063227..adf67188de77d1ede692d21d51aff6aa4de8570b 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
 - Removed PendingDeprecationWarning from apply().  apply() remains
-  deprecated, but the nuissance warning will not be issued.
+  deprecated, but the nuisance warning will not be issued.
 
 - At Python shutdown time (Py_Finalize()), 2.3 called cyclic garbage
   collection twice, both before and after tearing down modules.  The
@@ -114,9 +114,9 @@ Core and builtins
   When comparing containers with cyclic references to themselves it
   will now just hit the recursion limit.  See SF patch 825639.
 
-- str and unicode builtin types now have s.rsplit() method that is
-  same as s.split() except that it scans the string from the end
-  working forward.  See SF feature request 801847.
+- str and unicode builtin types now have rsplit() method that is
+  same as split() except that it scans the string from the end
+  working towards the beginning.  See SF feature request 801847.
 
 Extension modules
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