diff --git a/block.go b/block.go
index 1fa0121..c9bf2ff 100644
--- a/block.go
+++ b/block.go
@@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ gatherlines:
 				break gatherlines
 			}
 
-			// is this the first item in the the nested list?
+			// is this the first item in the nested list?
 			if sublist == 0 {
 				sublist = raw.Len()
 			}
diff --git a/markdown.go b/markdown.go
index 22f3c78..fcb8ac2 100644
--- a/markdown.go
+++ b/markdown.go
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ const (
 	EXTENSION_HARD_LINE_BREAK                        // translate newlines into line breaks
 	EXTENSION_TAB_SIZE_EIGHT                         // expand tabs to eight spaces instead of four
 	EXTENSION_FOOTNOTES                              // Pandoc-style footnotes
-	EXTENSION_NO_EMPTY_LINE_BEFORE_BLOCK             // No need to insert an empty line to start a (code, quote, order list, unorder list)block
+	EXTENSION_NO_EMPTY_LINE_BEFORE_BLOCK             // No need to insert an empty line to start a (code, quote, ordered list, unordered list) block
 	EXTENSION_HEADER_IDS                             // specify header IDs  with {#id}
 	EXTENSION_TITLEBLOCK                             // Titleblock ala pandoc
 	EXTENSION_AUTO_HEADER_IDS                        // Create the header ID from the text