diff --git a/docs/maintenance-upgrading-services.md b/docs/maintenance-upgrading-services.md
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--- a/docs/maintenance-upgrading-services.md
+++ b/docs/maintenance-upgrading-services.md
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ This playbook not only installs the various Matrix services for you, but can als
 
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-To upgrade the services:
+To upgrade services:
 
 - update your playbook directory (`git pull`), so you'd obtain everything new we've done
 
-- take a look at [the changelog](../CHANGELOG.md) to see if there have been any backward-incomptabile changes that you need to take care of
+- take a look at [the changelog](../CHANGELOG.md) to see if there have been any backward-incompatible changes that you need to take care of
 
 - re-run the [playbook setup](installing.md): `ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-all`
 
 - restart the services: `ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=start`
 
-**Note**: major version upgrades are not done to the internal PostgreSQL database. To upgrade that one, refer to the [upgrading PostgreSQL guide](maintenance-postgres.md#upgrading-postgresql).
+**Note**: major version upgrades to the internal PostgreSQL database are not done automatically. To upgrade it, refer to the [upgrading PostgreSQL guide](maintenance-postgres.md#upgrading-postgresql).