diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8e4fa0564..a01e6f4a7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ level, it provides a few major components:
 
 * A multithreaded, work-stealing based task [scheduler].
 * A reactor backed by the operating system's event queue (epoll, kqueue,
-  IOCP, etc...).
+  IOCP, etc.).
 * Asynchronous [TCP and UDP][net] sockets.
 
 These components provide the runtime components necessary for building
diff --git a/tokio/README.md b/tokio/README.md
index 8e4fa0564..a01e6f4a7 100644
--- a/tokio/README.md
+++ b/tokio/README.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ level, it provides a few major components:
 
 * A multithreaded, work-stealing based task [scheduler].
 * A reactor backed by the operating system's event queue (epoll, kqueue,
-  IOCP, etc...).
+  IOCP, etc.).
 * Asynchronous [TCP and UDP][net] sockets.
 
 These components provide the runtime components necessary for building