diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4ec6d04a95..455fa6ed88 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # A simple static wrapper for a number of standard Makefile targets,
 # mostly just forwarding to build/Makefile. This is provided only for
 # convenience and supports only a subset of what CMake's Makefile
-# to offer. For more, execute that one directly. 
+# offers. For more, execute that one directly. 
 #
 
 BUILD=build
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index aca9a820b6..4586410afc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Bro 2.0
 -------
 
 As the version number jump suggests, Bro 2.0 is a major upgrade and
-lots of things have changed. We have assembled a separate upprade
+lots of things have changed. We have assembled a separate upgrade
 guide with the most important changes compared to Bro 1.5 at
 http://www.bro-ids.org/documentation/upgrade.bro.html. You can find
 the offline version of that document in ``doc/upgrade.rst.``.
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ final release are:
       be redefined on the command line, e.g. ``bro -i eth0
       snaplen=65535``.
 
-    * Reintroduced the BRO_LOG_SUFFIX environment that the ASCII
-      logger now respects to add a suffix to the log files it creates.
+    * Reintroduced the BRO_LOG_SUFFIX environment variable that the
+      ASCII logger now respects to add a suffix to the log files it
+      creates.
 
     * The ASCII logs now include further header information, and 
       fields set to an empty value are now logged as ``(empty)`` by
diff --git a/README b/README
index 37cee2f333..c837afaf92 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Bro Network Security Monitor
 
 Bro is a powerful framework for network analysis and security
 monitoring. Please see the INSTALL file for installation instructions
-and pointers for getting started. NEWS contains releases notes for the
+and pointers for getting started. NEWS contains release notes for the
 current version, and CHANGES has the complete history of changes.
 Please see COPYING for licensing information.
 
diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README
index 57d569db84..0ba0a8587f 100644
--- a/doc/README
+++ b/doc/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Documentation
 =============
 
-This directory contains Bro documentation in reStructured text format
+This directory contains Bro documentation in reStructuredText format
 (see http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html).
 
 It is the root of a Sphinx source tree and can be modified to add more