diff --git a/man5/acct.5 b/man5/acct.5
index 8c8dcff2d..269b4071e 100644
--- a/man5/acct.5
+++ b/man5/acct.5
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ acct("/var/log/pacct");
 When process accounting is enabled, the kernel writes a record
 to the accounting file as each process on the system terminates.
 This record contains information about the terminated process,
-iand is defined in
+and is defined in
 .I <sys/acct.h>
 as follows:
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ struct acct {
     comp_t    ac_stime;     /* System CPU time */
     comp_t    ac_etime;     /* Elapsed time */
     comp_t    ac_mem;       /* Average memory usage (kB) */
-    comp_t    ac_io;        /* Chars transferred (unused) */
+    comp_t    ac_io;        /* Characters transferred (unused) */
     comp_t    ac_rw;        /* Blocks read or written (unused) */
     comp_t    ac_minflt;    /* Minor page faults */
     comp_t    ac_majflt;    /* Major page faults */
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ struct acct_v3 {
     comp_t    ac_utime;     /* User CPU time */
     comp_t    ac_stime;     /* System time */
     comp_t    ac_mem;       /* Average memory usage (kB) */
-    comp_t    ac_io;        /* Chars transferred (unused) */
+    comp_t    ac_io;        /* Characters transferred (unused) */
     comp_t    ac_rw;        /* Blocks read or written
                                (unused) */
     comp_t    ac_minflt;    /* Minor page faults */
@@ -164,11 +164,11 @@ on termination of the last thread in the process.
 The
 .I proc/sys/kernel/acct
 file, described in
-.BR proc(5),
+.BR proc (5),
 defines settings that control the behavior of process accounting
 when disk space runs low.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR lastcomm (1),
 .BR acct (2),
-.BR accton (8)
+.BR accton (8),
 .BR sa (8)