diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c591694a72..4677c75177 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12493,7 +12493,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 197:
           based on a calendar time specification such as "Thu,Fri
           2013-*-1,5 11:12:13" which refers to 11:12:13 of the first
           or fifth day of any month of the year 2013, given that it is
-          a thursday or friday. This brings timer event support
+          a Thursday or a Friday. This brings timer event support
           considerably closer to cron's capabilities. For details on
           the supported calendar time specification language see
           systemd.time(7).
diff --git a/units/systemd-sysupdate.timer b/units/systemd-sysupdate.timer
index d998765e21..6ecd98d13e 100644
--- a/units/systemd-sysupdate.timer
+++ b/units/systemd-sysupdate.timer
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ ConditionVirtualization=!container
 [Timer]
 # Trigger the update 15min after boot, and then – on average – every 6h, but
 # randomly distributed in a 2h…6h interval. In addition trigger things
-# persistently once on each saturday, to ensure that even on systems that are
+# persistently once on each Saturday, to ensure that even on systems that are
 # never booted up for long we have a chance to to do the update.
 OnBootSec=15min
 OnUnitActiveSec=2h