diff --git a/PC/bdist_wininst/extract.c b/PC/bdist_wininst/extract.c
index fc2d2b9..c900f23 100644
--- a/PC/bdist_wininst/extract.c
+++ b/PC/bdist_wininst/extract.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     return TRUE;
 }
 
-/* XXX Should better explicitely specify
+/* XXX Should better explicitly specify
  * uncomp_size and file_times instead of pfhdr!
  */
 char *map_new_file(DWORD flags, char *filename,
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
         zstream.avail_out = uncomp_size;
 
 /* Apparently an undocumented feature of zlib: Set windowsize
-   to negative values to supress the gzip header and be compatible with
+   to negative values to suppress the gzip header and be compatible with
    zip! */
         result = TRUE;
         if (Z_OK != (x = inflateInit2(&zstream, -15))) {
diff --git a/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c b/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c
index f023019..2b1deef 100644
--- a/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c
+++ b/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
    the permissions of the current user. */
 HKEY hkey_root = (HKEY)-1;
 
-BOOL success;                   /* Installation successfull? */
+BOOL success;                   /* Installation successful? */
 char *failure_reason = NULL;
 
 HANDLE hBitmap;
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@
 
     tempname = tempnam(NULL, NULL);
     // We use a static CRT while the Python version we load uses
-    // the CRT from one of various possibile DLLs.  As a result we
+    // the CRT from one of various possible DLLs.  As a result we
     // need to redirect the standard handles using the API rather
     // than the CRT.
     redirected = CreateFile(
diff --git a/PC/os2emx/dlfcn.c b/PC/os2emx/dlfcn.c
index 47c046c..ebda9cd 100644
--- a/PC/os2emx/dlfcn.c
+++ b/PC/os2emx/dlfcn.c
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
     return NULL;
 }
 
-/* free dynamicaly-linked library */
+/* free dynamically-linked library */
 int dlclose(void *handle)
 {
     int rc;
diff --git a/PC/os2emx/dlfcn.h b/PC/os2emx/dlfcn.h
index 49abecf..f73ae69 100644
--- a/PC/os2emx/dlfcn.h
+++ b/PC/os2emx/dlfcn.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 /* return a pointer to the `symbol' in DLL */
 void *dlsym(void *handle, char *symbol);
 
-/* free dynamicaly-linked library */
+/* free dynamically-linked library */
 int dlclose(void *handle);
 
 /* return a string describing last occurred dl error */