diff --git a/doc/usage.rst b/doc/usage.rst
index 57bf1ba..51d9c70 100644
--- a/doc/usage.rst
+++ b/doc/usage.rst
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ standard .ini-style config files. Put your nosetests configuration in a
    verbosity=3
    with-doctest=1
 
-There is also possiblity to disable configuration files loading (might be
-useful when runnig i.e. tox and you don't want your global nose config file to
+There is also possibility to disable configuration files loading (might be
+useful when running i.e. tox and you don't want your global nose config file to
 be used by tox). In order to ignore those configuration files simply set an
 environment variable ``NOSE_IGNORE_CONFIG_FILES``.