diff --git a/Doc/lib/libgetopt.tex b/Doc/lib/libgetopt.tex
index 7fe950f..3d582eb 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libgetopt.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libgetopt.tex
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 \var{options} should be an empty string.  Long options on the command
 line can be recognized so long as they provide a prefix of the option
 name that matches exactly one of the accepted options.  For example,
-it \var{long_options} is \code{['foo', 'frob']}, the option
+if \var{long_options} is \code{['foo', 'frob']}, the option
 \longprogramopt{fo} will match as \longprogramopt{foo}, but
 \longprogramopt{f} will not match uniquely, so \exception{GetoptError}
 will be raised.
diff --git a/Doc/mac/libaetypes.tex b/Doc/mac/libaetypes.tex
index 362bc2c..f7d8f8b 100644
--- a/Doc/mac/libaetypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/mac/libaetypes.tex
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 \end{classdesc}
 
 \begin{classdesc}{NProperty}{fr}
-Abstract basclass for an OSA property. The subclass should set the class
+Abstract baseclass for an OSA property. The subclass should set the class
 attributes \code{want} and \code{which} to designate which property we
 are talking about. Instances of subclasses of this class are Object
 Specifiers.
diff --git a/Doc/mac/libmacic.tex b/Doc/mac/libmacic.tex
index de5daa6..ad37c10 100644
--- a/Doc/mac/libmacic.tex
+++ b/Doc/mac/libmacic.tex
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{launchurl}{url\optional{, hint}}
-Parse the given URL, lauch the correct application and pass it the
+Parse the given URL, launch the correct application and pass it the
 URL. The optional \var{hint} can be a scheme name such as
 \code{'mailto:'}, in which case incomplete URLs are completed with this
 scheme.  If \var{hint} is not provided, incomplete URLs are invalid.
diff --git a/Doc/mac/using.tex b/Doc/mac/using.tex
index e3d4e1b..88d4d91 100644
--- a/Doc/mac/using.tex
+++ b/Doc/mac/using.tex
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@
 You can create a new script, open a previously saved script, and save
 your currently open script by selecting the appropriate item in the
 ``File'' menu. Dropping a Python script onto the
-\program{Python IDE} will open it for editting.
+\program{Python IDE} will open it for editing.
 
 If you try to open a script with the \program{Python IDE} but either
 can't locate it from the ``Open'' dialog box, or you get an error
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index 00e9482..d8847a8 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -7255,7 +7255,7 @@
 	x[lo:hi:stride]		==	x[slice(lo, hi, stride)]
 	x[a, ..., z]		==	x[(a, Ellipses, z)]
 
-- New documentation for errno and cgi mdoules.
+- New documentation for errno and cgi modules.
 
 - The directory containing the script passed to the interpreter is
 inserted in from of sys.path; "." is no longer a default path