diff --git a/contrib/adduser-old.c b/contrib/adduser-old.c
index 0b2080ec..1bf1f225 100644
--- a/contrib/adduser-old.c
+++ b/contrib/adduser-old.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 ** 1/28/95
 ** shadow-adduser 1.3:
 ** 
-** Basically a bug-fix on my additions in 1.2.  Thanx to Terry Stewart 
+** Basically a bug-fix on my additions in 1.2.  Thanks to Terry Stewart 
 ** (stew@texas.net) for pointing out one of the many idiotic bugs I introduced.
 ** It was such a stupid bug that I would have never seen it myself.
 **
diff --git a/contrib/adduser.c b/contrib/adduser.c
index 88596b02..deebd4c6 100644
--- a/contrib/adduser.c
+++ b/contrib/adduser.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 ** 1/28/95
 ** shadow-adduser 1.3:
 ** 
-** Basically a bug-fix on my additions in 1.2.  Thanx to Terry Stewart 
+** Basically a bug-fix on my additions in 1.2.  Thanks to Terry Stewart 
 ** (stew@texas.net) for pointing out one of the many idiotic bugs I introduced.
 ** It was such a stupid bug that I would have never seen it myself.
 **