diff --git a/src/compiler/checker.ts b/src/compiler/checker.ts
index dbce5f41ef4..6f643457e2f 100644
--- a/src/compiler/checker.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/checker.ts
@@ -12250,7 +12250,7 @@ namespace ts {
                         seen = c === node;
                     }
                 });
-                // We may be here because of some extra junk between overloads that could not be parsed into a valid node.
+                // We may be here because of some extra nodes between overloads that could not be parsed into a valid node.
                 // In this case the subsequent node is not really consecutive (.pos !== node.end), and we must ignore it here.
                 if (subsequentNode && subsequentNode.pos === node.end) {
                     if (subsequentNode.kind === node.kind) {
diff --git a/src/services/services.ts b/src/services/services.ts
index 38daea8d608..65a6bd1362c 100644
--- a/src/services/services.ts
+++ b/src/services/services.ts
@@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@ namespace ts {
                     if (oldSourceFile) {
                         // We already had a source file for this file name.  Go to the registry to
                         // ensure that we get the right up to date version of it.  We need this to
-                        // address the following 'race'.  Specifically, say we have the following:
+                        // address the following race-condition.  Specifically, say we have the following:
                         //
                         //      LS1
                         //          \