diff --git a/.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.words b/.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.words
index b64de09d2b..1a5e106400 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.words
+++ b/.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.words
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 anonymou
 aNULL
 bu
-Buss
 clen
 CNA
 hel
diff --git a/.github/scripts/codespell.sh b/.github/scripts/codespell.sh
index a14d36a53b..ac5f27dc47 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/codespell.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/codespell.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ codespell \
   --skip 'docs/THANKS' \
   --skip 'projects/OS400/*' \
   --skip 'projects/vms/*' \
+  --skip 'RELEASE-NOTES' \
   --skip 'scripts/wcurl' \
   --ignore-regex '.*spellchecker:disable-line' \
   --ignore-words '.github/scripts/codespell-ignore.words' \