diff --git a/docs/crio.conf.5.md b/docs/crio.conf.5.md
index 5699241fe3b..d069b77fbce 100644
--- a/docs/crio.conf.5.md
+++ b/docs/crio.conf.5.md
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ The `crio.runtime` table contains settings pertaining to the OCI runtime used an
     - If kubelet does not provide any information about the container workload trust level, the selected runtime will depend on the default_container_trust setting. If it is set to untrusted, then all containers except for the host privileged ones, will be run by the runtime_untrusted_workload runtime. Host privileged containers are by definition trusted and will always use the trusted container runtime. If default_container_trust is set to "trusted", CRI-O will use the trusted container runtime for all containers.
 
 **no_pivot**=*false*
-  If true, the runtime will not use use `pivot_root`, but instead use `MS_MOVE`.
+  If true, the runtime will not use `pivot_root`, but instead use `MS_MOVE`.
 
 **conmon**="/usr/local/libexec/crio/conmon"
   Path to the conmon binary, used for monitoring the OCI runtime.
diff --git a/test/README.md b/test/README.md
index 3a1c299a89a..ce9ba3de190 100644
--- a/test/README.md
+++ b/test/README.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ $ ./install.sh /usr/local
 ```
 
 You will also need to install the [CNI](https://github.com/containernetworking/cni) plugins as
-the the default pod test template runs without host networking:
+the default pod test template runs without host networking:
 
 ```
 $ cd "$GOPATH/src/github.com/containernetworking"