diff --git a/lang/en/plagiarism.php b/lang/en/plagiarism.php
index 08754258b98..f9cac3ae056 100644
--- a/lang/en/plagiarism.php
+++ b/lang/en/plagiarism.php
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ $string['configenableplagiarism'] = 'This will allow administrators to configure
 $string['manageplagiarism'] = 'Manage plagiarism plugins';
 $string['nopluginsinstalled'] = 'No plagiarism plugins are installed.';
 $string['plagiarism'] = 'Plagiarism';
-$string['privacy:metadata:plagiarism'] = 'The plagiarism subsystem acts as a conduit, passing requets from plugins to the various plagiarism plugins.';
+$string['privacy:metadata:plagiarism'] = 'The plagiarism subsystem acts as a channel, passing requests from plugins to the various plagiarism plugins.';
diff --git a/lang/en/privacy.php b/lang/en/privacy.php
index 3e6613dfdf3..073daac8945 100644
--- a/lang/en/privacy.php
+++ b/lang/en/privacy.php
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
  * @license   http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
  */
 
-$string['privacy:metadata'] = 'The privacy subsystem does not store any data of it\'s own and is designed to act as a conduit between components and the interface used to describe, export, and remove their data.';
+$string['privacy:metadata'] = 'The privacy subsystem does not store any data of its own and is designed to act as a channel between components and the interface used to describe, export, and remove their data.';
diff --git a/lang/en/tag.php b/lang/en/tag.php
index f2ffe0577ab..ecc325262ad 100644
--- a/lang/en/tag.php
+++ b/lang/en/tag.php
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ $string['privacy:metadata:taginstance'] = 'The link between each tag and where i
 $string['privacy:metadata:taginstance:tagid'] = 'The link to the tag.';
 $string['privacy:metadata:taginstance:ordering'] = 'The relative order of this tag.';
 $string['privacy:metadata:taginstance:timecreated'] = 'The time that this tag was linked to the target.';
-$string['privacy:metadata:taginstance:timemodified'] = 'The time that this tag was last modified for the target.';
-$string['privacy:metadata:taginstance:tiuserid'] = 'Where shared content can be individually tagged by users, tThe owner of the tag instance is stored.';
+$string['privacy:metadata:taginstance:timemodified'] = 'The time that this tag was modified for the target.';
+$string['privacy:metadata:taginstance:tiuserid'] = 'Where shared content can be individually tagged by users, the owner of the tag instance is stored.';
 $string['ptags'] = 'User defined tags (Comma separated)';
 $string['relatedblogs'] = 'Most recent blog entries';
 $string['relatedtags'] = 'Related tags';