diff --git a/appendices/filters.xml b/appendices/filters.xml
index 526c127ea6..fb780be868 100644
--- a/appendices/filters.xml
+++ b/appendices/filters.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.13 $ -->
 <appendix id="filters">
  <title>List of Available Filters</title>
  <para>
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   the PHP application is actually ready for the data or not.
   If data is sitting in the read buffer when a filter is 
   <emphasis>appended</emphasis>, this data will be immediately
-  processed through that buffer making the fact that is was
+  processed through that filter making the fact that it was
   sitting in the buffer seem transparent.  However, if data is
   sitting in the read buffer when a filter is 
   <emphasis>prepended</emphasis>, this data will <emphasis>NOT</emphasis>
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ The compressed file is 56 bytes long.
    an internal default.   
 
    The <literal>bzip2.decompress</literal> filter only accepts one parameter,
-   which can be passed as either an ordinary boolean value as the 
+   which can be passed as either an ordinary boolean value, or as the 
    <parameter>small</parameter> element of an associative array.
 
    <parameter>small</parameter>, when set to a &true; value, instructs the bzip library