diff --git a/doc/api/esm.md b/doc/api/esm.md
index 37ddc42ef3e796..abf0486fa415d1 100644
--- a/doc/api/esm.md
+++ b/doc/api/esm.md
@@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ export function globalPreload({ port }) {
 ### Examples
 
 The various loader hooks can be used together to accomplish wide-ranging
-customizations of Node.js' code loading and evaluation behaviors.
+customizations of the Node.js code loading and evaluation behaviors.
 
 #### HTTPS loader
 
diff --git a/src/README.md b/src/README.md
index 344622b36a54f0..40e3e0f3f1a764 100644
--- a/src/README.md
+++ b/src/README.md
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ the process otherwise. `maybe.FromJust()` (aka `maybe.ToChecked()`) can be used
 to access the value and crash the process if it is not set.
 
 This should only be performed if it is actually sure that the operation has
-not failed. A lot of Node.js's source code does **not** follow this rule, and
+not failed. A lot of the Node.js source code does **not** follow this rule, and
 can be brought to crash through this.
 
 In particular, it is often not safe to assume that an operation does not throw
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ this information is provided to async tracking tools.
 The `AsyncWrap` class has a set of methods called `MakeCallback()`, with the
 intention of the naming being that it is used to “make calls back into
 JavaScript” from the event loop, rather than making callbacks in some way.
-(As the naming has made its way into Node.js's public API, it's not worth
+(As the naming has made its way into the Node.js public API, it's not worth
 the breakage of fixing it).
 
 `MakeCallback()` generally calls a method on the JavaScript object associated
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ classes provide the same facilities as [`MakeCallback()`][], namely:
 
 Usually, using `AsyncWrap::MakeCallback()` or using the constructor taking
 an `AsyncWrap*` argument (i.e. used as
-`InternalCallbackScope callback_scope(this);`) suffices inside of Node.js's
+`InternalCallbackScope callback_scope(this);`) suffices inside of the Node.js
 C++ codebase.
 
 ## C++ utilities