diff --git a/_parts/part4.md b/_parts/part4.md
index 00a462d..c4df85e 100644
--- a/_parts/part4.md
+++ b/_parts/part4.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ describe 'database' do
     raw_output.split("\n")
   end
 
-  it 'inserts and retreives a row' do
+  it 'inserts and retrieves a row' do
     result = run_script([
       "insert 1 user1 person1@example.com",
       "select",
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ I'm going to use [strtok()](http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strtok/)
    }
 ```
 
-Calling `strtok` successively on the the input buffer breaks it into substrings by inserting a null character whenever it reaches a delimiter (space, in our case). It returns a pointer to the start of the substring.
+Calling `strtok` successively on the input buffer breaks it into substrings by inserting a null character whenever it reaches a delimiter (space, in our case). It returns a pointer to the start of the substring.
 
 We can call [strlen()](http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strlen/) on each text value to see if it's too long.
 
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ And we added tests:
 +    raw_output.split("\n")
 +  end
 +
-+  it 'inserts and retreives a row' do
++  it 'inserts and retrieves a row' do
 +    result = run_script([
 +      "insert 1 user1 person1@example.com",
 +      "select",
diff --git a/spec/main_spec.rb b/spec/main_spec.rb
index 4dbb826..d264105 100644
--- a/spec/main_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/main_spec.rb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def run_script(commands)
     raw_output.split("\n")
   end
 
-  it 'inserts and retreives a row' do
+  it 'inserts and retrieves a row' do
     result = run_script([
       "insert 1 user1 person1@example.com",
       "select",