Spelling fixes

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/doc/building.txt b/doc/building.txt
index 2e52eee1c..603eef849 100644
--- a/doc/building.txt
+++ b/doc/building.txt
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ Modules not listed on the command line will simply be loaded if needed
 or if configured to load by default. If you use ``--no-autoload``,
 only the most core modules will be included; you can then explicitly
 enable things that you want to use with ``--enable-modules``. This is
-useful for creating a minimal build targetted to a specific
-application, especially in conjuction with the amalgamation option;
+useful for creating a minimal build targeting to a specific
+application, especially in conjunction with the amalgamation option;
 see :ref:`amalgamation`.
 
 The script tries to guess what kind of makefile to generate, and it
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ environment in a different directory.
 Configuring the Build With Python 3.1
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-The versions of Python begininning with 3 are (intentionally)
+The versions of Python beginning with 3 are (intentionally)
 incompatible with the (currently more common) 2.x series. If you want
 to use Python 3.1 to set up the build, you'll have to use the
 ``2to3`` program (included in the Python distribution) on the
diff --git a/doc/examples.txt b/doc/examples.txt
index a598c3679..e0fd3ab40 100644
--- a/doc/examples.txt
+++ b/doc/examples.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Format Preserving Encryption
 ----------------------------------------
 
 Format preserving encryption is a way of mapping data with an
-arbitrarly specified format such that the ciphertext has the same
+arbitrarily specified format such that the ciphertext has the same
 formatting. This example encrypts a credit card number with a valid
 `Luhn checksum <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm>`_ to
 another number with the same format, including a correct checksum.
diff --git a/doc/faq.txt b/doc/faq.txt
index fe1014e82..bfc8d0045 100644
--- a/doc/faq.txt
+++ b/doc/faq.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-Frequantly Asked Questions
+Frequently Asked Questions
 ========================================
 
 What is this thing?
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Public key algorithms implemented using the Chinese Remainder Theorem
 (RSA and Rabin-Williams) are subject to a catastrophic failure: if a
 computational error (either induced by an attacker or merely
 accidental) occurs during the private key operation, the private key
-can be revealed. Other, more suble, fault attacks are possible against
+can be revealed. Other, more subtle, fault attacks are possible against
 other schemes.  For this reason, private key operations are checked
 for consistency with the public key - if the results are not
 consistent, then an exception is thrown indicating an error has
@@ -170,8 +170,8 @@ releases (1.9.x). Currently SSLv3 and TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are supported.
 source SSHv2 implementation that uses botan.
 
 A preliminary and very incomplete implementation of CMS (the crypto
-layer underlying S/MIME) is included in <tt>src/cms</tt>, but it needs
-a lot of love and attention before being truly useful.
+layer underlying S/MIME) is included in ``src/cms``, but it needs a
+lot of love and attention before being truly useful.
 
 There is currently no support for OpenPGP.