diff --git a/crypto-primitives/src/crh/bowe_hopwood/mod.rs b/crypto-primitives/src/crh/bowe_hopwood/mod.rs
index 89a4ca2..68a3e90 100644
--- a/crypto-primitives/src/crh/bowe_hopwood/mod.rs
+++ b/crypto-primitives/src/crh/bowe_hopwood/mod.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//! The [Bowe-Hopwood-Pedersen] hash is a optimized variant of the Pedersen CRH for
+//! The [Bowe-Hopwood-Pedersen] hash is an optimized variant of the Pedersen CRH for
 //! specific Twisted Edwards (TE) curves. See [Section 5.4.17 of the Zcash protocol specification](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zcash/zips/master/protocol/protocol.pdf#concretepedersenhash) for a formal description of this hash function, specialized for the Jubjub curve.
 //! The implementation in this repository is generic across choice of TE curves.
 
diff --git a/crypto-primitives/src/merkle_tree/constraints.rs b/crypto-primitives/src/merkle_tree/constraints.rs
index 83ae4f5..f6b9fbe 100644
--- a/crypto-primitives/src/merkle_tree/constraints.rs
+++ b/crypto-primitives/src/merkle_tree/constraints.rs
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ impl<P: Config, F: PrimeField, PG: ConfigGadget<P, F>> PathVar<P, F, PG> {
 
         let mut curr_hash =
             PG::TwoToOneHash::evaluate(two_to_one_params, left_hash.borrow(), right_hash.borrow())?;
-        // To traverse up a MT, we iterate over the path from bottom to top (i.e. in reverse)
+        // To traverse up an MT, we iterate over the path from bottom to top (i.e. in reverse)
 
         // At any given bit, the bit being 0 indicates our currently hashed value is the left,
         // and the bit being 1 indicates our currently hashed value is on the right.