typos fixed by Rob Hooft
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
index c9b5624..d450ad3 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/cmd.py
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
         should be disabled by the "dry run" flag, and should announce
         themselves if the current verbosity level is high enough.  This
         method takes care of all that bureaucracy for you; all you have to
-        do is supply the funtion to call and an argument tuple for it (to
+        do is supply the function to call and an argument tuple for it (to
         embody the "external action" being performed), a message to print
         if the verbosity level is high enough, and an optional verbosity
         threshold.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
index adf85d3..54d4846 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """distutils.command.build_ext
 
 Implements the Distutils 'build_ext' command, for building extension
-modules (currently limited to C extensions, should accomodate C++
+modules (currently limited to C extensions, should accommodate C++
 extensions ASAP)."""
 
 # created 1999/08/09, Greg Ward
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@
             # Next, compile the source code to object files.
 
             # XXX not honouring 'define_macros' or 'undef_macros' -- the
-            # CCompiler API needs to change to accomodate this, and I
+            # CCompiler API needs to change to accommodate this, and I
             # want to do one thing at a time!
 
             # Two possible sources for extra compiler arguments:
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 5c1de78..ebfdf0a 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         return os.path.normpath(path)
 
 
-# More backwards compatability hacks
+# More backwards compatibility hacks
 def extend (list, new_list):
     """Appends the list 'new_list' to 'list', just like the 'extend()'
        list method does in Python 1.5.2 -- but this works on earlier
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/version.py b/Lib/distutils/version.py
index 918a1de..8b9ef10 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/version.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/version.py
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
 # provides enough benefit to be worth using, and will submit their
 # version numbering scheme to its domination.  The free-thinking
 # anarchists in the lot will never give in, though, and something needs
-# to be done to accomodate them.
+# to be done to accommodate them.
 # 
 # Perhaps a "moderately strict" version class could be implemented that
 # lets almost anything slide (syntactically), and makes some heuristic