diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c3b1bb9..94861bb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ None is interpreted as missing.
 	>>> w.record(False)
 	>>> w.record(0)
 	>>> w.record(None)
-	>>> w.record("Nonesense")
+	>>> w.record("Nonsense")
 	>>> w.close()
 	
 	>>> r = shapefile.Reader('shapefiles/test/dtype')
diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index 291a2e8..80b88e2 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ VERSION 1.2.5
 	* Merge README text into markdown file. Remove text version.
 	* Fixed parsing of number of points for some shapes (MULTIPOINTM, MULTIPOINTZ)
 
-VERSON 1.2.3
+VERSION 1.2.3
 
 2015-06-21 Joel Lawhead <jlawhead@geospatialpython.com>
 	*shapefile.py (u) Bugfix for Python3 with Reader.iterShapeRecords()