diff --git a/regexps.qmd b/regexps.qmd
index fa48a88..4e60814 100644
--- a/regexps.qmd
+++ b/regexps.qmd
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ str_view(fruit, "berry")
 ```
 
 Letters and numbers match exactly and are called **literal characters**.
-Most punctuation characters, like `.`, `+`, `*`, `[`, `],` and `?`, have special meanings[^regexps-2] and are called **meta-characters**. For example, `.`
+Most punctuation characters, like `.`, `+`, `*`, `[`, `],` and `?`, have special meanings[^regexps-2] and are called **metacharacters**. For example, `.`
 will match any character[^regexps-3], so `"a."` will match any string that contains an "a" followed by another character
 :
 
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ str_view(c("abc", "a.c", "a*c", "a c"), ".[*]c")
 ### Anchors
 
 By default, regular expressions will match any part of a string.
-If you want to match at the start of end you need to **anchor** the regular expression using `^` to match the start or `$` to match the end:
+If you want to match at the start or end you need to **anchor** the regular expression using `^` to match the start or `$` to match the end:
 
 ```{r}
 str_view(fruit, "^a")
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ str_view(sentences, "^The")
 ```
 
 Because that pattern also matches sentences starting with words like `They` or `These`.
-We need to make sure that the "e" is the last letter in the word, which we can do by adding adding a word boundary:
+We need to make sure that the "e" is the last letter in the word, which we can do by adding a word boundary:
 
 ```{r}
 str_view(sentences, "^The\\b")