diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/macholib/README.ctypes b/Lib/ctypes/macholib/README.ctypes
index 4e10cbe..2866e9f 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/macholib/README.ctypes
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/macholib/README.ctypes
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Files in this directory from from Bob Ippolito's py2app.
+Files in this directory come from Bob Ippolito's py2app.
 
 License: Any components of the py2app suite may be distributed under
 the MIT or PSF open source licenses.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt b/Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt
index 632b266..621b3e3 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 The idle directory, idlelib, has over 60 xyz.py files. The idle_test
 subdirectory should contain a test_xyz.py for each, where 'xyz' is lowercased
-even if xyz.py is not. Here is a possible template, with the blanks after after
+even if xyz.py is not. Here is a possible template, with the blanks after
 '.' and 'as', and before and after '_' to be filled in.
 
 import unittest
diff --git a/Lib/lib-tk/Tix.py b/Lib/lib-tk/Tix.py
index c98b549..3266e01 100644
--- a/Lib/lib-tk/Tix.py
+++ b/Lib/lib-tk/Tix.py
@@ -1052,8 +1052,8 @@
 
 class LabelEntry(TixWidget):
     """LabelEntry - Entry field with label. Packages an entry widget
-    and a label into one mega widget. It can be used be used to simplify
-    the creation of ``entry-form'' type of interface.
+    and a label into one mega widget. It can be used to simplify the creation
+    of ``entry-form'' type of interface.
 
     Subwidgets       Class
     ----------       -----
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
index 4ae1e41..2387029 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
@@ -1755,7 +1755,7 @@
         self.conn, self.connaddr = self.srv.accept()
 
     def clientSetUp(self):
-        # The is a hittable race between serverExplicitReady() and the
+        # There is a hittable race between serverExplicitReady() and the
         # accept() call; sleep a little while to avoid it, otherwise
         # we could get an exception
         time.sleep(0.1)