diff --git a/docs/examples/affinity/cookie/README.md b/docs/examples/affinity/cookie/README.md
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--- a/docs/examples/affinity/cookie/README.md
+++ b/docs/examples/affinity/cookie/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This example demonstrates how to achieve session affinity using cookies
 
 ## Deployment
 
-Session stickyness is achieved through 3 annotations on the Ingress, as shown in the [example](ingress.yaml).
+Session stickiness is achieved through 3 annotations on the Ingress, as shown in the [example](ingress.yaml).
 
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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Last-Modified: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:02:19 GMT
 ETag: "58875e6b-264"
 Accept-Ranges: bytes
 ```
-In the example above, you can see a line containing the 'Set-Cookie: route' setting the right defined stickyness cookie.
+In the example above, you can see a line containing the 'Set-Cookie: route' setting the right defined stickiness cookie.
 This cookie is created by NGINX containing the hash of the used upstream in that request. 
 If the user changes this cookie, NGINX creates a new one and redirect the user to another upstream.