Merge branch 'ta/docs'

* ta/docs:
  Fix misspelling of chosen
  Fix typos in erl(1)
  Fix misspelling of 'turn off'
  Fix typo in reltool(3)
  Fix typo in gen_sctp(3)
  Fix typo in mod_responsecontrol.erl
  Fix typo in erts_alloc(3)
  Fix typos in ssl_cipher.erl
  Fix typos in expressions.xml
  file: correct make_link/2 and make_symlink/2 docs
  Fix typo in test_server(3)
  Fix typos in io_protocol.xml
  Fix typo in erlang(3)
  Fix typos in tar_SUITE
  Fix typos in erts/preloaded/src

OTP-9787

29 files changed, 58 insertions, 57 deletions

diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
index 9fb718e60f..cfbc38f176 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@
 	      <tag><c>ts</c></tag>
               <item>
                 <p><c>thread_spread</c> - Thread refers to hardware threads
-		(e.g. Intels hyper-threads). Schedulers with low scheduler
+		(e.g. Intel's hyper-threads). Schedulers with low scheduler
 		identifiers, will be bound to the first hardware thread of
 		each core, then schedulers with higher scheduler identifiers
 		will be bound to the second hardware thread of each core,
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@
               <item><c><![CDATA[<IdDefs> = <LogicalIds><ThreadIds><CoreIds><ProcessorIds><NodeIds> | <LogicalIds><ThreadIds><CoreIds><NodeIds><ProcessorIds>]]></c></item>
               <item><c><![CDATA[CpuTopology = <IdDefs>:<IdDefs> | <IdDefs>]]></c></item>
             </list>
-            <p>Set a user defined CPU topolgy. The user defined
+            <p>Set a user defined CPU topology. The user defined
 	       CPU topology will override any automatically detected
 	       CPU topology. The CPU topology is used when
 	       <seealso marker="#+sbt">binding schedulers to logical
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 42a4e6a999..eac7db5eaa 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -2866,7 +2866,7 @@ os_prompt%</pre>
 	      <p>For external programs, the <c>PATH</c> is searched
 	      (or an equivalent method is used to find programs,
 	      depending on operating system). This is done by invoking
-	      the shell och certain platforms. The first space
+	      the shell on certain platforms. The first space
 	      separated token of the command will be considered as the
 	      name of the executable (or driver). This (among other
 	      things) makes this option unsuitable for running
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml b/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml
index 8378e7c676..ec5e7d9b74 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml
@@ -212,8 +212,8 @@
     <p>Apart from the ordinary allocators described above a number of
        pre-allocators are used for some specific data types. These
        pre-allocators pre-allocate a fixed amount of memory for certain data
-       types when the run-time system starts. As long as there are available
-       pre-allocated memory, it will be used. When no pre-allocated memory is
+       types when the run-time system starts. As long as pre-allocated memory
+       is available, it will be used. When no pre-allocated memory is
        available, memory will be allocated in ordinary allocators. These
        pre-allocators are typically much faster than the ordinary allocators,
        but can only satisfy a limited amount of requests.</p>
diff --git a/erts/preloaded/src/erl_prim_loader.erl b/erts/preloaded/src/erl_prim_loader.erl
index 35defde692..14a7a2bf20 100644
--- a/erts/preloaded/src/erl_prim_loader.erl
+++ b/erts/preloaded/src/erl_prim_loader.erl
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ start(Id, Pgm0, Hosts) ->
             {error,Reason}
     end.
 
-%% Hosts must be a list on form ['1.2.3.4' ...]
+%% Hosts must be a list of form ['1.2.3.4' ...]
 start_it("inet", Id, Pid, Hosts) ->
     process_flag(trap_exit, true),
     ?dbg(inet, {Id,Pid,Hosts}),
diff --git a/lib/configure.in.src b/lib/configure.in.src
index 792a7f932a..609bb62308 100644
--- a/lib/configure.in.src
+++ b/lib/configure.in.src
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ dnl
 dnl %CopyrightEnd%
 dnl
 
-dnl Turn of caching
+dnl Turn off caching
 define([AC_CACHE_LOAD], )dnl
 define([AC_CACHE_SAVE], )dnl
 
diff --git a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml
index dc22f2aa14..8cb893cd1c 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml
+++ b/lib/crypto/doc/src/crypto.xml
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ Mpint() = <![CDATA[<<ByteLen:32/integer-big, Bytes:ByteLen/binary>>]]>
           and verifies that the digest matches the RSA signature using the
           signer's public key <c>Key</c>.
 	</p>
-	<p>May throw exception <c>notsup</c> in case the choosen <c>DigestType</c>
+	<p>May throw exception <c>notsup</c> in case the chosen <c>DigestType</c>
 	is not supported by the underlying OpenSSL implementation.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>
diff --git a/lib/hipe/opt/hipe_schedule.erl b/lib/hipe/opt/hipe_schedule.erl
index 4925b2927b..ca3abf8cc6 100644
--- a/lib/hipe/opt/hipe_schedule.erl
+++ b/lib/hipe/opt/hipe_schedule.erl
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ dep_arc(N, Lat, M, {Dag,Preds}) ->
 %% Returns     : A dependence graph sorted by To. 
 %% Description : A new arc that is added is sorted in the right place, and if
 %%               there is already an arc between nodes A and B, the one with 
-%%               the greatest latency is choosen.
+%%               the greatest latency is chosen.
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 add_arc(Lat,To, []) -> {[{Lat, To}], added};
 add_arc(Lat1, To, [{Lat2, To} | Arcs]) ->
diff --git a/lib/hipe/tools/hipe_profile.erl b/lib/hipe/tools/hipe_profile.erl
index 7566acb8f4..1284b64f13 100644
--- a/lib/hipe/tools/hipe_profile.erl
+++ b/lib/hipe/tools/hipe_profile.erl
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ calls() ->
 %%   F(), 
 %%   %% Get result.
 %%   R = res(),
-%%   %% Turn of profiling.
+%%   %% Turn off profiling.
 %%   prof_off(),
 %%   R.
 
diff --git a/lib/inets/src/http_server/mod_responsecontrol.erl b/lib/inets/src/http_server/mod_responsecontrol.erl
index 989f45db20..6af5f6211e 100644
--- a/lib/inets/src/http_server/mod_responsecontrol.erl
+++ b/lib/inets/src/http_server/mod_responsecontrol.erl
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ compare_etags(Tag,Etags) ->
 
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 %%                                                                  %%
-%% Control if the file is modificated                               %%
+%% Control if the file is modified                                  %%
 %%                                                                  %%
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%	    
 
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
index 6b89711924..ee687511a3 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
@@ -229,10 +229,10 @@
      <c>-code_path_choice Choice</c>. If the flag is set to <c>relaxed</c>,
      the code server will instead choose a suitable directory
      depending on the actual file structure. If there exists a regular
-     application ebin directory,situation it will be choosen. But if it does
-     not exist, the ebin directory in the archive is choosen if it
+     application ebin directory,situation it will be chosen. But if it does
+     not exist, the ebin directory in the archive is chosen if it
      exists. If neither of them exists the original directory will be
-     choosen.</p>
+     chosen.</p>
 
     <p>The command line flag <c>-code_path_choice Choice</c> does also
      affect how <c>init</c> interprets the <c>boot script</c>. The
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
index c6a1f25dd9..719cbba2b8 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@
       <desc>
         <p>Makes a hard link from <c><anno>Existing</anno></c> to
           <c><anno>New</anno></c>, on
-          platforms that support links (Unix). This function returns
+          platforms that support links (Unix and Windows). This function returns
           <c>ok</c> if the link was successfully created, or
           <c>{error, <anno>Reason</anno>}</c>. On platforms that do not support
           links, <c>{error,enotsup}</c> is returned.</p>
@@ -566,11 +566,12 @@
       <name name="make_symlink" arity="2"/>
       <fsummary>Make a symbolic link to a file or directory</fsummary>
       <desc>
-        <p>This function creates a symbolic link <c><anno>Name2</anno></c> to
-          the file or directory <c><anno>Name1</anno></c>, on platforms that
-          support
-          symbolic links (most Unix systems). <c><anno>Name1</anno></c> need not
-          exist. This function returns <c>ok</c> if the link was
+        <p>This function creates a symbolic link <c><anno>New</anno></c> to
+          the file or directory <c><anno>Existing</anno></c>, on platforms that
+          support symbolic links (most Unix systems and Windows beginning with
+	  Vista).
+	  <c><anno>Existing</anno></c> need not exist.
+          This function returns <c>ok</c> if the link was
           successfully created, or <c>{error, <anno>Reason</anno>}</c>.
           On platforms
           that do not support symbolic links, <c>{error, enotsup}</c>
@@ -580,11 +581,11 @@
           <tag><c>eacces</c></tag>
           <item>
             <p>Missing read or write permissions for the parent directories
-            of <c><anno>Name1</anno></c> or <c><anno>Name2</anno></c>.</p>
+            of <c><anno>Existing</anno></c> or <c><anno>New</anno></c>.</p>
           </item>
           <tag><c>eexist</c></tag>
           <item>
-            <p><c><anno>Name2</anno></c> already exists.</p>
+            <p><c><anno>New</anno></c> already exists.</p>
           </item>
           <tag><c>enotsup</c></tag>
           <item>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_sctp.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_sctp.xml
index 418bfae4b8..579b7f1f74 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_sctp.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_sctp.xml
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
 	it is bound to.</p>
 	<p>For type <c>seqpacket</c> sockets (the default)
 	<c><anno>IsServer</anno></c> must be <c>true</c> or <c>false</c>.
-	In the contrast to TCP, in SCTP there is no listening queue length.
+	In contrast to TCP, in SCTP there is no listening queue length.
 	If <c><anno>IsServer</anno></c> is <c>true</c> the socket accepts new associations, i.e.
 	it will become an SCTP server socket.</p>
 	<p>For type <c>stream</c> sockets <anno>Backlog</anno> defines
diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/file.erl b/lib/kernel/src/file.erl
index d964f16d9f..7793009bb9 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/src/file.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/file.erl
@@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ read_file(Name) ->
 make_link(Old, New) ->
     check_and_call(make_link, [file_name(Old), file_name(New)]).
 
--spec make_symlink(Name1, Name2) -> ok | {error, Reason} when
-      Name1 :: name(),
-      Name2 :: name(),
+-spec make_symlink(Existing, New) -> ok | {error, Reason} when
+      Existing :: name(),
+      New :: name(),
       Reason :: posix() | badarg.
 
 make_symlink(Old, New) ->
diff --git a/lib/megaco/doc/src/megaco_run.xml b/lib/megaco/doc/src/megaco_run.xml
index 9ed589b079..ca46983288 100644
--- a/lib/megaco/doc/src/megaco_run.xml
+++ b/lib/megaco/doc/src/megaco_run.xml
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
       "in storage" (indicated by the transaction id) it is assumed to 
       be a resend and everything stored is sent. This could happen if 
       the values of the <c><![CDATA[trans_timer]]></c> and the
-      <c><![CDATA[request_timer]]></c> is not properly choosen.</p>
+      <c><![CDATA[request_timer]]></c> is not properly chosen.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section>
diff --git a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3a.hrl b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3a.hrl
index 7b7a60fdae..3e73f94761 100644
--- a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3a.hrl
+++ b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3a.hrl
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@
 
 
 %% This is the actual ASN.1 type and it is as this it will
-%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is choosen.
+%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is chosen.
 %% %% String of at least 1 character and at most 67 characters (ASN.1). 
 %% %% 64 characters for name, 1 for "/", 2 for version to match ABNF
 %% -record('ServiceChangeProfile',
diff --git a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3b.hrl b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3b.hrl
index cfabb29941..b4bde2bb7e 100644
--- a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3b.hrl
+++ b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3b.hrl
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@
 
 
 %% This is the actual ASN.1 type and it is as this it will
-%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is choosen.
+%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is chosen.
 %% %% String of at least 1 character and at most 67 characters (ASN.1). 
 %% %% 64 characters for name, 1 for "/", 2 for version to match ABNF
 %% -record('ServiceChangeProfile',
diff --git a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3c.hrl b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3c.hrl
index 32024c9a02..90612f66c8 100644
--- a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3c.hrl
+++ b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_prev3c.hrl
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@
 
 
 %% This is the actual ASN.1 type and it is as this it will
-%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is choosen.
+%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is chosen.
 %% %% String of at least 1 character and at most 67 characters (ASN.1). 
 %% %% 64 characters for name, 1 for "/", 2 for version to match ABNF
 %% -record('ServiceChangeProfile',
diff --git a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v1.hrl b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v1.hrl
index ba50b50c80..f196c26713 100644
--- a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v1.hrl
+++ b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v1.hrl
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
 	 }). % with extension mark
 
 %% This is the actual ASN.1 type and it is as this it will
-%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is choosen.
+%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is chosen.
 % %% String of at least 1 character and at most 67 characters (ASN.1). 
 % %% 64 characters for name, 1 for "/", 2 for version to match ABNF
 % -record('ServiceChangeProfile',
diff --git a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v2.hrl b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v2.hrl
index 6190ea7ac4..af79c4dc92 100644
--- a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v2.hrl
+++ b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v2.hrl
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@
 
 
 %% This is the actual ASN.1 type and it is as this it will
-%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is choosen.
+%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is chosen.
 %% %% String of at least 1 character and at most 67 characters (ASN.1). 
 %% %% 64 characters for name, 1 for "/", 2 for version to match ABNF
 %% -record('ServiceChangeProfile',
diff --git a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v3.hrl b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v3.hrl
index 7a1bc80571..466cfa6856 100644
--- a/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v3.hrl
+++ b/lib/megaco/include/megaco_message_v3.hrl
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@
 
 
 %% This is the actual ASN.1 type and it is as this it will
-%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is choosen.
+%% be represented if the encoding config [native] is chosen.
 %% %% String of at least 1 character and at most 67 characters (ASN.1). 
 %% %% 64 characters for name, 1 for "/", 2 for version to match ABNF
 %% -record('ServiceChangeProfile',
diff --git a/lib/megaco/src/engine/megaco_digit_map.erl b/lib/megaco/src/engine/megaco_digit_map.erl
index de28686d6d..a904bd565a 100644
--- a/lib/megaco/src/engine/megaco_digit_map.erl
+++ b/lib/megaco/src/engine/megaco_digit_map.erl
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ collect(Event, State, Timers, STL, Letters) ->
 	       "~n   Timers2:  ~p"
 	       "~n   Letters2: ~p", [State2, Timers2, Letters2]),
 	    MaxWait = choose_timer(State2, Event, Timers2),
-	    ?d("collect -> Timer choosen: "
+	    ?d("collect -> Timer chosen: "
 	       "~n   MaxWait: ~p", [MaxWait]),
 	    receive
 		{?MODULE, _FromPid, Event2} ->
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ compute_cont([Next | Cont] = All, Mode, GlobalMode, State, STL) ->
        "~n   Mode:       ~p"
        "~n   GlobalMode: ~p", [Next, Mode, GlobalMode]),
     case Next of
-	%% Retain long timer if that has already been choosen
+	%% Retain long timer if that has already been chosen
 	use_short_timer when GlobalMode =:= use_long_timer ->
 	    compute_cont(Cont, Mode, GlobalMode, State, STL);
 	use_short_timer ->
diff --git a/lib/reltool/doc/src/reltool.xml b/lib/reltool/doc/src/reltool.xml
index 31e15e34e7..ab1c8e3034 100644
--- a/lib/reltool/doc/src/reltool.xml
+++ b/lib/reltool/doc/src/reltool.xml
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ target_spec()       = [target_spec()]
     </func>
 
     <func>
-      <name>get_target_spec(Server) -> {ok, targetSpec} | {error, Reason}</name>
+      <name>get_target_spec(Server) -> {ok, TargetSpec} | {error, Reason}</name>
       <fsummary>Return a specification of the target system</fsummary>
       <type>
         <v>Server     = server()</v>
diff --git a/lib/sasl/doc/src/systools.xml b/lib/sasl/doc/src/systools.xml
index 1b90f0d4ee..32c2149a8d 100644
--- a/lib/sasl/doc/src/systools.xml
+++ b/lib/sasl/doc/src/systools.xml
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
           the order in the <c>.rel</c> file is kept.</p>
 	<p>If <c>sasl</c> is not included as an application in
 	  the <c>.rel</c> file, a warning is emitted because such a
-	  release can not be used in an upgrade. To turn of this
+	  release can not be used in an upgrade. To turn off this
 	  warning, add the option <c>no_warn_sasl</c>.</p>
         <p>All files are searched for in the current path. It is
           assumed that the <c>.app</c> and <c>.beam</c> files for an
diff --git a/lib/ssl/src/ssl_cipher.erl b/lib/ssl/src/ssl_cipher.erl
index 95a5efd6d0..015265441e 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/src/ssl_cipher.erl
+++ b/lib/ssl/src/ssl_cipher.erl
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ block_decipher(Fun, #cipher_state{key=Key, iv=IV} = CipherState0,
 	    false ->
 		%% decryption failed or invalid padding,
 		%% intentionally break Content to make
-		%% sure a packet with a an invalid padding
+		%% sure a packet with invalid padding
 		%% but otherwise correct data will fail
 		%% the MAC test later
 		{<<16#F0, Content/binary>>, Mac, CipherState1}
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ hash_size(sha) ->
 %%
 %% implementation note:
 %%   We return the original (possibly invalid) PadLength in any case.
-%%   A invalid PadLength will be cought by is_correct_padding/2
+%%   An invalid PadLength will be caught by is_correct_padding/2
 %%
 generic_block_cipher_from_bin(T, HashSize) ->
     Sz1 = byte_size(T) - 1,
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml
index 3e8ab1affc..0ff3d5c1ee 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io_protocol.xml
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ current I/O-protocol.</p>
 and execution time efficiency has triggered extensions to the protocol
 over the years, making the protocol larger and somewhat less easy to
 implement than the original. It can certainly be argumented that the
-current protocol is to complex, but this text describes how it looks
+current protocol is too complex, but this text describes how it looks
 today, not how it should have looked.</p>
 
-<p>The basic ideas from the original protocol still holds. The io_server
+<p>The basic ideas from the original protocol still hold. The io_server
 and client communicate with one single, rather simplistic protocol and
 no server state is ever present in the client. Any io_server can be
 used together with any client code and client code need not be aware
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ of the actual device the io_server communicates with.</p>
 <section>
 <title>Protocol basics</title>
 
-<p>As described in Roberts paper, servers and clients communicate using
+<p>As described in Robert's paper, servers and clients communicate using
 io_request/io_reply tuples as follows:</p>
 
 <p><em>{io_request, From, ReplyAs, Request}</em><br/>
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Reply part.</p>
 <em>{put_chars, Encoding, Module, Function, Args}</em>
 </p>
 <list type="bulleted">
-<item>Encoding is either 'latin1' or 'unicode', meaning that the
+<item>Encoding is either 'unicode' or 'latin1', meaning that the
   characters are (in case of binaries) encoded as either UTF-8 or
   iso-latin-1 (pure bytes). A well behaved io_server should also
   return error if list elements contain integers > 255 when the
@@ -116,13 +116,13 @@ Reply part.</p>
   produces. Note that byte-oriented data is simplest sent using latin1
   Encoding</item>
 
-<item>Characters are the data to be put on the device. If encoding is
-  latin1, this is an iolist(). If encoding is unicode, this is an
+<item>Characters are the data to be put on the device. If Encoding is
+  latin1, this is an iolist(). If Encoding is unicode, this is an
   Erlang standard mixed unicode list (one integer in a list per
   character, characters in binaries represented as UTF-8).</item>
 
 <item>Module, Function, Args denotes a function which will be called to
-  produce the data (like io_lib:format), Args is a list of arguments
+  produce the data (like io_lib:format). Args is a list of arguments
   to the function. The function should produce data in the given
   Encoding. The io_server should call the function as apply(Mod, Func,
   Args) and will put the returned data on the device as if it was sent
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ latin1, Module, Function, Args} respectively. </p>
 <list type="bulleted">
 <item>Encoding denotes how data is to be sent back to the client and
   what data is sent to the function denoted by
-  Module/Function/Arity. If the function supplied returns data as a
+  Module/Function/ExtraArgs. If the function supplied returns data as a
   list, the data is converted to this encoding. If however the
   function supplied returns data in some other format, no conversion
   can be done and it's up to the client supplied function to return
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ latin1, Module, Function, Args} respectively. </p>
 <item>Prompt is a list of characters (not mixed, no binaries) or an atom()
   to be output as a prompt for input on the device. The Prompt is
   often ignored by the io_server and a Prompt set to '' should always
-  be ignored (and result in nothing being written to the device). </item>
+  be ignored (and result in nothing being written to the device).</item>
 
 <item><p>Module, Function, ExtraArgs denotes a function and arguments to
   determine when enough data is written. The function should take two
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ request({get_line, Encoding, _Prompt}, State) -&gt;
 </code>
 
 <p>Here we have cheated a little by more or less only implementing
-get_until and using internal helpers to implement get__chars and
+get_until and using internal helpers to implement get_chars and
 get_line. In production code, this might be to inefficient, but that
 of course depends on the frequency of the different requests. Before
 we start actually implementing the functions put_chars/2 and
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ encounter an error or the list is exhausted. The last return value is
 sent back to the client (it's first returned to the main loop and then
 sent back by the function io_reply).</p>
 
-<p>The getopt and setopt requests is also simple to handle, we just
+<p>The getopt and setopt requests are also simple to handle, we just
 change or read our state record:</p>
 
 <code>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/test/tar_SUITE.erl b/lib/stdlib/test/tar_SUITE.erl
index 65ccdcb7a8..5bc34e35af 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/test/tar_SUITE.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/test/tar_SUITE.erl
@@ -766,9 +766,9 @@ run_in_short_tempdir(Config, Fun) ->
     %% We need a base directory with a much shorter pathname than
     %% priv_dir. We KNOW that priv_dir is located four levels below
     %% the directory that common_test puts the ct_run.* directories
-    %% in. That fact is not documented, but an usually reliable source
+    %% in. That fact is not documented, but a usually reliable source
     %% assured me that the directory structure is unlikely to change
-    %% in future versions of common_test because of backward
+    %% in future versions of common_test because of backwards
     %% compatibility (tools developed by users of common_test depend
     %% on the current directory layout).
     Base = lists:foldl(fun(_, D) ->
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server.xml
index 78bb922cc5..5bfa42c36f 100644
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server.xml
+++ b/lib/test_server/doc/src/test_server.xml
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
     <func>
       <name>format(Format) -> ok</name>
       <name>format(Format, Args)</name>
-      <name>format(Pri,Format)</name>
+      <name>format(Pri, Format)</name>
       <name>format(Pri, Format, Args)</name>
       <fsummary></fsummary>
       <type>
diff --git a/lib/xmerl/include/xmerl_xsd.hrl b/lib/xmerl/include/xmerl_xsd.hrl
index 6dad7d8ff0..644cc2e433 100644
--- a/lib/xmerl/include/xmerl_xsd.hrl
+++ b/lib/xmerl/include/xmerl_xsd.hrl
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
 %% allowed for a schema.
 %% chain, represents a series of ordered objects, some of whom may be
 %% optional.
-%% alterantive, a collection of objects of which only one is choosen.
+%% alterantive, a collection of objects of which only one is chosen.
 -record(chain,{
 	  content,
 	  occurance={1,1}
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
index 43d46d87cc..5fca7225bb 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/expressions.xml
@@ -563,12 +563,12 @@ number &lt; atom &lt; reference &lt; fun &lt; port &lt; pid &lt; tuple &lt; list
       element.</p>
       <p>When comparing an integer to a float, the term with the lesser
       precision will be converted into the other term's type, unless the
-      operator is one of =:= and =/=. A float is more precise than
+      operator is one of =:= or =/=. A float is more precise than
       an integer until all significant figures of the float are to the left of
-      the decimal point. This happens when the float is larger/smaller then
+      the decimal point. This happens when the float is larger/smaller than
       +/-9007199254740992.0. The conversion strategy is changed
       depending on the size of the float because otherwise comparison of large
-      floats and integers would loose their transitivity.</p>
+      floats and integers would lose their transitivity.</p>
 
     <p>Returns the Boolean value of the expression, <c>true</c> or
       <c>false</c>.</p>