diff --git a/Source/cmSystemTools.h b/Source/cmSystemTools.h
index 641c89fae..213734043 100644
--- a/Source/cmSystemTools.h
+++ b/Source/cmSystemTools.h
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ class cmSystemTools: public cmsys::SystemTools
 public:
   typedef cmsys::SystemTools Superclass;
 
-  /** Expand out any arguements in the vector that have ; separated
-   *  strings into multiple arguements.  A new vector is created
+  /** Expand out any arguments in the vector that have ; separated
+   *  strings into multiple arguments.  A new vector is created
    *  containing the expanded versions of all arguments in argsIn.
    */
   static void ExpandList(std::vector<std::string> const& argsIn,