diff --git a/docs/views.rst b/docs/views.rst
index 1d2daec7..63d26c5c 100644
--- a/docs/views.rst
+++ b/docs/views.rst
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ Method Based Dispatching
 
 For RESTful APIs it's especially helpful to execute a different function
 for each HTTP method.  With the :class:`flask.views.MethodView` you can
-easily do that.  Each HTTP method maps to a function with the same name
-(just in lowercase)::
+easily do that.  Each HTTP method maps to a method of the class with the
+same name (just in lowercase)::
 
     from flask.views import MethodView
 
diff --git a/src/flask/app.py b/src/flask/app.py
index 22cc9abc..8c3c39d4 100644
--- a/src/flask/app.py
+++ b/src/flask/app.py
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ class Flask(Scaffold):
 
         .. versionchanged:: 1.0
             Exceptions are looked up by code *and* by MRO, so
-            ``HTTPExcpetion`` subclasses can be handled with a catch-all
+            ``HTTPException`` subclasses can be handled with a catch-all
             handler for the base ``HTTPException``.
 
         .. versionadded:: 0.3