diff --git a/src/allmydata/web/common.py b/src/allmydata/web/common.py
index 66c827552..085e8809b 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/web/common.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/web/common.py
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ class NeedOperationHandleError(WebError):
 
 class SlotsSequenceElement(template.Element):
     """
-    ``SlotsSequenceElement` is a minimal port of nevow's sequence renderer for
+    ``SlotsSequenceElement` is a minimal port of Nevow's sequence renderer for
     twisted.web.template.
 
     Tags passed in to be templated will have two renderers available: ``item``
diff --git a/src/allmydata/web/directory.py b/src/allmydata/web/directory.py
index 0d521951f..e67281980 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/web/directory.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/web/directory.py
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ class DirectoryNodeHandler(ReplaceMeMixin, Resource, object):
 
         # Rejecting URIs that contain empty path pieces (for example:
         # "/uri/URI:DIR2:../foo//new.txt" or "/uri/URI:DIR2:..//") was
-        # the old nevow behavior and it is encoded in the test suite;
+        # the old Nevow behavior and it is encoded in the test suite;
         # we will follow suit.
         for segment in req.prepath:
             if not segment: