diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
index 7c70281..c323eef 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
    program name is ``'/usr/local/bin/python'``, the prefix is ``'/usr/local'``. The
    returned string points into static storage; the caller should not modify its
    value.  This corresponds to the :makevar:`prefix` variable in the top-level
-   :file:`Makefile` and the :option:`--prefix` argument to the :program:`configure`
+   :file:`Makefile` and the ``--prefix`` argument to the :program:`configure`
    script at build time.  The value is available to Python code as ``sys.prefix``.
    It is only useful on Unix.  See also the next function.
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
    program name is ``'/usr/local/bin/python'``, the exec-prefix is
    ``'/usr/local'``.  The returned string points into static storage; the caller
    should not modify its value.  This corresponds to the :makevar:`exec_prefix`
-   variable in the top-level :file:`Makefile` and the :option:`--exec-prefix`
+   variable in the top-level :file:`Makefile` and the ``--exec-prefix``
    argument to the :program:`configure` script at build  time.  The value is
    available to Python code as ``sys.exec_prefix``.  It is only useful on Unix.
 
diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
index 0943796..962b4ef 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/design.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@
 Python 2.6 adds an :mod:`abc` module that lets you define Abstract Base Classes
 (ABCs).  You can then use :func:`isinstance` and :func:`issubclass` to check
 whether an instance or a class implements a particular ABC.  The
-:mod:`collections` modules defines a set of useful ABCs such as
+:mod:`collections` module defines a set of useful ABCs such as
 :class:`Iterable`, :class:`Container`, and :class:`MutableMapping`.
 
 For Python, many of the advantages of interface specifications can be obtained
diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
index 47c09ad..96d1c51 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@
 :func:`execfile` with the name of your file as argument.
 
 Also note that you can not mix-and-match Debug and Release versions.  If you
-wish to use the Debug Multithreaded DLL, then your module *must* have an "_d"
+wish to use the Debug Multithreaded DLL, then your module *must* have ``_d``
 appended to the base name.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index bf0899d..09f97a9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
      conflicting optionals.
 
    * prog_ - The name of the program (default:
-     :data:`sys.argv[0]`)
+     ``sys.argv[0]``)
 
    * usage_ - The string describing the program usage (default: generated)