diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
index 3f88803fb2..942e8e9f4a 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ boot2: boot2.ldr boot2.bin ${BTX}/btx/btx
link the binary. BTX, which stands for BooT eXtender, is a
piece of code that provides a protected mode environment for the
program, called the client, that it is linked with. So boot2 is
- a BTX client, i.e. it uses the sevice provided by BTX.
+ a BTX client, i.e. it uses the service provided by BTX.
The btxld utility is the linker.
It links two binaries together. The difference between
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/boot/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
index 3f88803fb2..942e8e9f4a 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ boot2: boot2.ldr boot2.bin ${BTX}/btx/btx
link the binary. BTX, which stands for BooT eXtender, is a
piece of code that provides a protected mode environment for the
program, called the client, that it is linked with. So boot2 is
- a BTX client, i.e. it uses the sevice provided by BTX.
+ a BTX client, i.e. it uses the service provided by BTX.
The btxld utility is the linker.
It links two binaries together. The difference between