diff --git a/runtime/syntax/mysql.vim b/runtime/syntax/mysql.vim
index 86a6c07..c01ecc1 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/mysql.vim
+++ b/runtime/syntax/mysql.vim
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 " Vim syntax file
 " Language:     mysql
 " Maintainer:   Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@ieee.org>
-" Last Change:  $LastChangedDate: 2009-06-29 23:08:37 -0500 (Mon, 29 Jun 2009) $
+" Last Change:  $LastChangedDate: 2010-04-22 09:48:02 -0500 (Thu, 22 Apr 2010) $
 " Filenames:    *.mysql
 " URL:          ftp://cedar-solutions.com/software/mysql.vim
 " Note:         The definitions below are taken from the mysql user manual as of April 2002, for version 3.23
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 syn match mysqlNumber            "\<0x[abcdefABCDEF0-9]*\>"
 
 " User variables
-syn match mysqlVariable          "@\a*[A-Za-z0-9]*[._]*[A-Za-z0-9]*"
+syn match mysqlVariable          "@\a*[A-Za-z0-9]*\([._]*[A-Za-z0-9]\)*"
 
 " Comments (c-style, mysql-style and modified sql-style)
 syn region mysqlComment          start="/\*"  end="\*/"
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
 " This gets a bit ugly.  There are two different problems we have to
 " deal with.
 "
-" The first problem is that some keywoards like 'float' can be used
+" The first problem is that some keywords like 'float' can be used
 " both with and without specifiers, i.e. 'float', 'float(1)' and
 " 'float(@var)' are all valid.  We have to account for this and we
 " also have to make sure that garbage like floatn or float_(1) is not