diff --git a/collects/meta/web/www/index.rkt b/collects/meta/web/www/index.rkt
index 297e85df2d..e73a043b44 100644
--- a/collects/meta/web/www/index.rkt
+++ b/collects/meta/web/www/index.rkt
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 
 (struct example (code desc))
 
-(define ((example-with-help . help) code desc) (example code (list desc help)))
+(define ((example-with-help . help) code desc)
+  (example code (list desc help)))
 (define generic-example
   @example-with-help{
     @p{To run the example, install Racket, start DrRacket, paste the example
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@
 (define (elemcode . strs) (apply tt strs))
 
 (define examples
-  @; --- Each example here should at most 7 lines long ---------------
+  @; --- Each example here should be at most 7 lines long ------------
   (list
    @; Candidates for initial example: --------------------------------
    (list
@@ -310,7 +311,7 @@
 (define (slideshow-panel l1 l2)
   (define l (append l1 l2))
   (define button-ids+labels '())
-  ;; this separator is shown in non-CSS browsers (eg, textual ones)
+  ;; this separator is shown in non-CSS browsers (e.g., textual ones)
   (define invisible-separator @div[style: "display: none;"]{@br{}@hr{}})
   (define (button txt tip id onclick)
     (set! button-ids+labels (cons (cons id txt) button-ids+labels))
diff --git a/collects/mred/private/wx/cocoa/README.txt b/collects/mred/private/wx/cocoa/README.txt
index df66a5c0a3..a480da26a9 100644
--- a/collects/mred/private/wx/cocoa/README.txt
+++ b/collects/mred/private/wx/cocoa/README.txt
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ Allocation rules:
  * Other autoreleased objects may end up in the root pool installed by
    "pool.rkt". The root pool is periodically destroyed and replaced;
    call `queue-autorelease-flush' if you need to encurage replacement
-   of the pool. If you need to use an object htat might be autoflushed,
+   of the pool. If you need to use an object that might be autoflushed,
    be sure that you're in atomic mode.
diff --git a/collects/setup/main.rkt b/collects/setup/main.rkt
index 9740816ec1..84135a6440 100644
--- a/collects/setup/main.rkt
+++ b/collects/setup/main.rkt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   ;; that will not be parsed as flags by "parse-cmdline.rkt". We don't
   ;; want to load "parse-cmdline.rkt" because it takes a long time with
   ;; bytecode files disabled, and we're not yet sure whether to trust
-  ;; bytecode ifes that do exist.
+  ;; bytecode files that do exist.
   (define-values (filter-flags)
     (lambda (flags)
       (if (or (null? flags)
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@
 		    ;;  any date mismatch in the loading process, abort and
 		    ;;  try again without .zo files. If .zo files are newer
 		    ;;  than .rkt files but a required file is newer than its
-		    ;;  requring file, we won't notice, but that
-		    ;;  shouldn't happen for a reaonsbaly maintained
+		    ;;  requiring file, we won't notice, but that
+		    ;;  shouldn't happen for a reasonably maintained
 		    ;;  tree, and there's always --clean to turn this
 		    ;;  off. If an .so file is used, we give up using
 		    ;;  compiled files.