diff --git a/docs/reference/gio/gdbus-codegen.xml b/docs/reference/gio/gdbus-codegen.xml
index 2c335222a..08dc76a5e 100644
--- a/docs/reference/gio/gdbus-codegen.xml
+++ b/docs/reference/gio/gdbus-codegen.xml
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ my_app_frobber_proxy_new_sync   (GDBusConnection     *connection,
       the generated methods such as
       <function>my_app_frobber_call_hello_world()</function> to invoke
       the <function>net.Corp.MyApp.Frobber.HelloWorld()</function>
-      D-Bus method, connect to the the
+      D-Bus method, connect to the
       <function>::notification</function> GObject signal to receive
       the <function>net.Corp.MyApp.Frobber::Notication</function>
       D-Bus signal and get/set the
diff --git a/docs/reference/gio/migrating-gdbus.xml b/docs/reference/gio/migrating-gdbus.xml
index bda3f76aa..5205a7cdb 100644
--- a/docs/reference/gio/migrating-gdbus.xml
+++ b/docs/reference/gio/migrating-gdbus.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
           url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus#ReferenceImplementation.28dbus-daemonandlibdbus.29">libdbus
           reference implementation</ulink>, GDBus doesn't. Instead, it
           relies on GIO streams as transport layer, and has its own
-          implementation for the the D-Bus connection setup and
+          implementation for the D-Bus connection setup and
           authentication. Apart from using streams as transport,
           avoiding libdbus also lets GDBus avoid some thorny
           multithreading issues.
diff --git a/docs/reference/glib/regex-syntax.xml b/docs/reference/glib/regex-syntax.xml
index bd95249e6..6cfb132d3 100644
--- a/docs/reference/glib/regex-syntax.xml
+++ b/docs/reference/glib/regex-syntax.xml
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ of them fail, since there is no character to match.
 
 <para>
 For compatibility with Perl, \s does not match the VT character (code
-11). This makes it different from the the POSIX "space" class. The \s
+11). This makes it different from the POSIX "space" class. The \s
 characters are HT (9), LF (10), FF (12), CR (13), and space (32).
 </para>