diff --git a/man3/crypt.3 b/man3/crypt.3
index 251ab7bf6..54dac7ec8 100644
--- a/man3/crypt.3
+++ b/man3/crypt.3
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ function was not implemented, probably because of U.S.A. export restrictions.
 .\" It is suspected that this may contain a back door which could allow the
 .\" NSA to decrypt DES encrypted data.
 .\" .PP
-.\" Making encrypted data computed using crypt() publically available has
+.\" Making encrypted data computed using crypt() publicly available has
 .\" to be considered insecure for the given reasons.
 .SH "GNU EXTENSION"
 The glibc2 version of this function has the following additional features.
diff --git a/man3/glob.3 b/man3/glob.3
index 5a070cd4b..8946015af 100644
--- a/man3/glob.3
+++ b/man3/glob.3
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ functions,
 .B GLOB_BRACE
 which means that
 .BR csh (1)
-style brace expresions \fB{a,b}\fR are expanded,
+style brace expressions \fB{a,b}\fR are expanded,
 .TP
 .B GLOB_NOMAGIC
 which means that the pattern is returned if it contains no metacharacters,
diff --git a/man3/key_setsecret.3 b/man3/key_setsecret.3
index 36fb656b7..10480c404 100644
--- a/man3/key_setsecret.3
+++ b/man3/key_setsecret.3
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .\"  Copyright 2002 walter harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
 .\"  Distributed under GPL
 .\"  I had no way the check the functions out
-.\"  be carefull
+.\"  be careful
 .TH KEY_SETSECRET 3 2002-07-18 "secure rpc"
 .SH NAME
 key_decryptsession, key_encryptsession, key_setsecret, key_gendes,
diff --git a/man3/login.3 b/man3/login.3
index d9c1e9b6d..f74c758d4 100644
--- a/man3/login.3
+++ b/man3/login.3
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ database, or 0 if an error occurred.
 .SH NOTE
 These functions are included in libutil, hence you'll need to add
 .B \-lutil
-to your compiler commandline.
+to your compiler command line.
 
 Note that the
 member
diff --git a/man3/openpty.3 b/man3/openpty.3
index fa769e2b8..138bd733e 100644
--- a/man3/openpty.3
+++ b/man3/openpty.3
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ fails.
 .SH NOTE
 These functions are included in libutil, hence you'll need to add
 .B \-lutil
-to your compiler commandline.
+to your compiler command line.
 .SH FILES
 .I /dev/[pt]ty[pqrstuwxyzabcdePQRST][0123456789abcdef]
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3
index fa05da78a..c2d82feeb 100644
--- a/man3/system.3
+++ b/man3/system.3
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ etc.) are made available when including
 As mentioned,
 .BR system ()
 ignores SIGINT and SIGQUIT.  This may make programs that call it
-from a loop uninterruptable, unless they take care themselves
+from a loop uninterruptible, unless they take care themselves
 to check the exit status of the child. E.g.
 .br
 .nf
diff --git a/man3/updwtmp.3 b/man3/updwtmp.3
index e7bb3aa3b..716e7fe61 100644
--- a/man3/updwtmp.3
+++ b/man3/updwtmp.3
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ used to occur in the old libbsd. These days, the
 .B logwtmp
 function is included in libutil. (Hence you'll need to add
 .B \-lutil
-to your compiler commandline to get it.)
+to your compiler command line to get it.)
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 .I /var/log/wtmp
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index 09767d6a8..249ecd5bd 100644
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -1230,5 +1230,5 @@ Linus Torvalds (and many others)
 Large parts of this man page have been derived from the
 Boot Parameter HOWTO (version 1.0.1) written by Paul Gortmaker.
 More information may be found in this (or a more recent) HOWTO.
-An uptodate source of information is
+An up-to-date source of information is
 .IR /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt .
diff --git a/man7/raw.7 b/man7/raw.7
index 3557717e3..052db2969 100644
--- a/man7/raw.7
+++ b/man7/raw.7
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ is specified and the IP header has a non-zero destination address then
 the destination address of the socket is used to route the packet. When 
 .B MSG_DONTROUTE
 is specified the destination address should refer to a local interface,
-otherwise a routing table lookup is done anyways but gatewayed routes
+otherwise a routing table lookup is done anyway but gatewayed routes
 are ignored.
 
 If
diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7
index 755268452..8d0ed0c2f 100644
--- a/man7/uri.7
+++ b/man7/uri.7
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ A path segment which contains a colon
 character can't be used as the first segment of a relative URI path
 (e.g., "this:that"), because it would be mistaken for a scheme name;
 precede such segments with ./ (e.g., "./this:that").
-Note that descendents of MS-DOS (e.g., Microsoft Windows) replace
+Note that descendants of MS-DOS (e.g., Microsoft Windows) replace
 devicename colons with the vertical bar ("|") in URIs, so "C:" becomes "C|".
 .PP
 A fragment identifier, if included, refers to a particular named portion
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ remote operation to be performed.
 .PP
 It is clearly unwise to use a URI that contains a password which is
 intended to be secret. In particular, the use of a password within
-the 'userinfo' component of a URI is strongly disrecommended except
+the 'userinfo' component of a URI is strongly recommended against except
 in those rare cases where the 'password' parameter is intended to be public.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 .PP