diff --git a/.spellcheck-en-custom.txt b/.spellcheck-en-custom.txt
index 257abbc..41a4d5a 100644
--- a/.spellcheck-en-custom.txt
+++ b/.spellcheck-en-custom.txt
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ json
 osbuild
 qcow
 UEFI
+datadir
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cd91d81..43f05af 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -119,10 +119,10 @@ A: The osbuild binary is used to actually build the images but beyond that
    no setup is required, i.e. no daemons like osbuild-composer.
 
 Q: Can I have custom repository files?
-A: Sure! The repostories are encoded in json in "<distro>-<vesion>.json",
+A: Sure! The repositories are encoded in json in "<distro>-<vesion>.json",
    files, e.g. "fedora-41.json". See these [examples](https://github.com/osbuild/images/tree/main/data/repositories). Use the "--datadir" switch and
    place them under "repositories/name-version.json", e.g. for:
-   "--datadir ~/my-project --distro foo-1" a json file must be put under 
+   "--datadir ~/my-project --distro foo-1" a json file must be put under
    "~/my-project/repositories/foo-1.json.
 
 ## Project